By Mitch Troutman The Baffler November 14th, 2023 New York makes its waste Pennsylvania’s problem They were up there grinning,…
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Book Review: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry
By Mitchell K. Jones Midwestern Marx July 6th, 2023 Modern “Coal Bootleggers” in Schuylkill County”. Postcard circa 1945. A bootleg…
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion— A World Wide Work Review
By Matt Witt World Wide Work July 2023 The Bootleg Coal Rebellion by Mitch Troutman (PM Press). Based on interviews…
How illegal Great Depression-era Pennsylvania coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionize
The radical history of the Pennsylvania coal region is the subject of a new book ‘The Bootleg Coal Rebellion.’ By…
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion— A True Review
By Andrew Andrews True Review My parents grew up in what sounded to me, when we visited, like “the cold…
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion
By Andrew Andrews True Review My parents grew up in what sounded to me, when we visited, like “the cold…
Mahanoy City’s Prohibition Pipeline
By Mitch Troutman Bootleg coal towns had makeshift alert systems. When the coal companies moved against the bootleg miners, some…
Mitch Troutman on New Books Network
Told with great intimacy and compassion, Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 (PM Press, 2022)…
Fight–Don’t Starve
By Firestorm Coop September 12th, 2022 Join author Mitch Troutman in conversation with creative activist Eleanor Goldfield in this virtual…
DIY Coal Dredgers & the Hard Coal Navy
By Mitch Troutman The bootleggers weren’t the only ones reclaiming company coal for their own. For a century or better,…