I live in a "right-to-work" (i.e. worker-hostile) state, and spent 3 years as a middle school librarian in a rural town. It once had good jobs working in the coal mines. Now, it has a reservoir where folks from Knoxville float their boats. I told the students about their proud history: the 1891 lockout of coal miners in 1891, which resulted in the town being occupied by the state militia for over a year after miners attempted to force an end to the use of unpaid convict labor in the mines. This labor struggle was eventually resolved in the coal miners' …
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