Mutiny in the Mountains by Gordon Simmons (Paperback Book)

Name: Mutiny in the Mountains by Gordon Simmons (Paperback Book)
Brand: PM Press

PM Press

Mutiny in the MountainsWest Virginia Public Workers 1969-2019\nAuthor(s): Gordon Simmons\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pm Press, United States\nImprint: Pm Press\nISBN-13: 9798887441535, 979-8887441535\nSynopsis\nIn 1969, thousands of West Virginia state highway workers went on strike in fear that they faced impending loss of their jobs as they were excluded from civil service protection. Although the walkout coincided with one of the most severe winters to affect road conditions, the newly elected governor fired the strikers. The 1969 State Road Strike inaugurated a half decade of public sector organizing and protest that culminated in the historic public-school strikes of [tel] that shut down all schools across the Mountain State and inspired a wave of public education strikes in Arizona, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and beyond. Beginning with the nation's first general strike in 1877, that started with railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and including the early coal strikes in.