By Jonah Walters Los Angeles Review of Books March 21, 2024 The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized…
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion reviewed in Journal of Appalachian Studies 29.2
By Lou Martin Journal of Appalachian Studies 29.2 In The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,…
Out of State, Out of Mind
By Mitch Troutman The Baffler November 14th, 2023 New York makes its waste Pennsylvania’s problem They were up there grinning,…
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…
Organization and Immunity
Hundreds of angry miners crowded around the machine, several attacking it with hammers and axes. Finally, fifteen sticks of dynamite…
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…