{"product_id":"union-renegades-9780252043505","title":"Union Renegades","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skillfully arranged. . . Caldemeyer demonstrates that the world of the Gilded Age working class was not as cut and dried as some of its would-be leadership thought it was -- and that it was not as politically bespoke for as believed by many of the historians who have tried to interpret it.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Overall, \u003ci\u003eUnion Renegades\u003c\/i\u003e offers an engaging account of Midwestern history, which will appeal to lay readers and provide scholars with innovative interpretations of labor history.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dana M. Caldemeyer's \u003ci\u003eUnion Renegades\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a resonating bang for its reader. . . . A clear and thoughtful reexamination of labor struggles during the Gilded Age. Through six detailed and nuanced instances of dissatisfaction with the union, the book shows that miners navigated a complex world of capitalism and labor as individuals pursuing the best option for themselves as wage workers and miners.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eFor anyone who assumes that joining a union in the late-nineteenth-century coalfields reflected a simple choice, \u003ci\u003eUnion Renegades\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning catalog of the various factors that shaped the complex calculation that workers had to make. Caldemeyer’s deeply researched study joins a growing list of scholarship exploring attitudes about unions, capitalism, and power in the rural-industrial heartland. Its lessons are important for our time.\"--Kenneth Fones-Wolf, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eStruggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 Deceived: Producers in a Dishonest World\u003cbr\u003e 2 Undermined: Winter Diggers, Union Strikebreakers\u003cbr\u003e 3 “Judases”: Union “Betrayal” and the Aborted 1891 Strike\u003cbr\u003e 4 Outsiders: Race and the Exclusive Politics of an Inclusive Union, 1892-1894\u003cbr\u003e 5 Unsettled: Non-Union Mobilization and the 1894 Strike\u003cbr\u003e 6 Wolves: Fractured Unions in the Gilded Age, 1894-1896\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400449565015,"sku":"9780252043505","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252043505.jpg?v=1730470712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/union-renegades-9780252043505","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}