Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country
by Paul A. Shackel
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Lattimer, Pennsylvania, is the location for one of labor's forgotten massacres, a result of the xenophobic fears prevalent during the turn of the 20th century. On September 10, 1897, about 400 strikers of eastern & southern European descent marched to close the Lattimer colliery. Without warning, the men were fired upon by the local sheriff & his posse. The shooters stood trial for the killing of the protestors & were acquitted. Though Lattimer is one of the largest tragedies in US labor show more history, a type of amnesia attached to the event, & the massacre has been largely forgotten in the national public memory. Many attempts to memorialize the Lattimer massacre failed, as labor & capital struggled to control memory of the event. Eventually, in 1972, the town erected a monument at the site. While Lattimer is a lesson about past labor & immigration practices, it is also about the ways in which communities perceive new immigrants. show lessTags
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Paul A. Shackel is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland-College Park. His books include Archaeology, Heritage, and Civic Engagement: Working Toward the Public Good and New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland. A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. show more Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein show less
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- 331.89 — Society, government, & culture Economics Labor economics Labor unions, labor-management bargaining and disputes Labour-management bargaining and disputes
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- HD5325 .M62 .S53 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class Labor disputes. Strikes and lockouts
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