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Working Class HistoryE96: Bootleg miners, part 2During the Great Depression in the US, facing mass job losses and abject poverty, thousands of coal miners in Pennsylvania took direct action and began digging their own mines on company property. We tell their story in this two-part podcast.Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise and other content. Join us or find out more at patreon.com/workingclasshistoryWith Mitch Troutman, author of the excellent book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion...2024-12-0446 min
Working Class HistoryE95: Bootleg miners, part 1During the Great Depression in the US, facing mass job losses and abject poverty, thousands of coal miners in Pennsylvania took direct action and began digging their own mines on company property. We tell their story in this two-part podcast.Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise and other content. Join us or find out more at patreon.com/workingclasshistoryWith Mitch Troutman, author of the excellent book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion...2024-11-2743 min
Labor History TodayThe Bootleg Coal RebellionLabor historian Mitch Troutman’s 2022 book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 is a detailed account of coal bootlegging in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania in the Prohibition/Depression decades when unemployed miners took over unused mines,
asserting and defending a right to mine and market the coal to support their families. Excerpted from his June 23, 2022 talk for The Battle of Homestead Foundation.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: the year was 1785. That was the day the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York...2024-11-1727 min
Labor JawnBootleg Coal Rebellion - Interview with Mitch TroutmanSam and Gabe sit down with Mitch Troutman, organizer and author of The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942. Originally aired: December 12, 2022.Support the showwww.laborjawn.com2024-08-1834 min
The Real News PodcastHow illegal Great Depression-era PA coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionizeThe onset of the Great Depression brought devastation to Pennsylvania's coal region. Suddenly rendered unemployed, coal miners with no other way to make a living turned to 'bootleg' mining, setting up their own mines. The only problem was that legally, they were on company property—specifically, property owned by the likes of JP Morgan. What unfolded was a vicious, heroic, and almost unbelievable fight to unionize the coal fields by workers whose livelihoods were labelled 'illegal.' TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with Mitch Troutman to discuss his new book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an...2023-06-0157 min
New Books in Economic and Business HistoryMitch Troutman, "Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942" (PM Press, 2022)Told with great intimacy and compassion, Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 (PM Press, 2022) uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would safeguard not just their livelihoods, but protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for decades. Community and Labor organizer Mitch Troutman brings this explosive and accessible American tale to life through the bootleggers' own words. Scholars, historians, organizers and activists will celebrate this story of...2022-10-1142 min
New Books in American PoliticsMitch Troutman, "Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942" (PM Press, 2022)Told with great intimacy and compassion, Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 (PM Press, 2022) uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would safeguard not just their livelihoods, but protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for decades. Community and Labor organizer Mitch Troutman brings this explosive and accessible American tale to life through the bootleggers' own words. Scholars, historians, organizers and activists will celebrate this story of...2022-10-1142 min
WKOK Sunrise9/15/22 WKOK Sunrise: Mitch Troutman, on the upcoming book signings and appearances for his book: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942Mitch Troutman, former Trevorton resident, author, activist, and co-founder of Anthracite Unite, on his new book: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942. We got an update on his schedule in The Valley, book signings and why the message of bootleg mining might be a timely message today.
Tues Sept 20 at 7 pm – Trinity Church, Mahantongo Valley
Sat Sept 24 – Eckley Miner’s Village, Eckley, PA
Sat Oct 15 at 2 pm – Otto Bookstore, Williamsport, PA2022-09-1513 minWKOK Sunrise8/18/22 WKOK Sunrise: Mitch Troutman, author, activist, on his new book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion, talking about bootleg coal mines in our regionMitch Troutman, former Trevorton resident, author, activist, and co-founder of Anthracite Unite, on his new book: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942, on the truly American homegrown industry of bootleg mines, how they started, why the thrived, why the stopped, and a thousand machinations of the government, business, human, cultural and coal production institutions in between. We’ll talk about his experiences and why preserving his pivotal time—speaks to present day. He’ll talk about his upcoming appearances in The Valley.2022-08-1813 min
From the Press BoxLISTEN: Sports and coronavirusThe Sentinel's Beau Troutman and Mitch Boatman about the postponement of The Masters, the White Caps faux-opening day and pop culture to pay attention to during the lockdown.2020-04-0945 min
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He descubierto toda esta historia en este artículo de Harry Nussbaumer, "Einstein's conversion from his static to an expanding universe"...2016-07-2405 minQuantumFractureEl Descubrimiento que se le Escapó a EinsteinConoce la salseante historia de cómo Albert Einstein mando a pastar a los padres de la Cosmología moderna... ¡la naturaleza de la evolución del universo sobre la mesa!
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He descubierto toda esta historia en este artículo de Harry Nussbaumer, "Einstein's conversion from his static to an expanding universe"...2016-07-2405 minQuantumFractureEl Descubrimiento que se le Escapó a EinsteinConoce la salseante historia de cómo Albert Einstein mando a pastar a los padres de la Cosmología moderna... ¡la naturaleza de la evolución del universo sobre la mesa!
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He descubierto toda esta historia en este artículo de Harry Nussbaumer, "Einstein's conversion from his static to an expanding universe"...2016-07-2405 min