Killing for Coal

America's Deadliest Labor War

Thomas G. Andrews

  • 2009 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History
  • 2009 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
  • 2009 Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • 2009 Colorado Book Award, History Category
  • 2009 Spence Award, Mining History Association
  • Honorable Mention, 2009 Hundley Prize, awarded by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
  • Finalist, 2009 Clements Prize, awarded by the Clements Center at SMU, Southwest History category
  • Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Firestone Library
  • 2009 Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Denver Public Library
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Civil War, Red and Bloody
  1. A Dream of Coal-Fired Benevolence
  2. The Reek of the New Industrialism
  3. Riding the Wave to Survive an Earth Transformed
  4. Dying with Their Boots On
  5. Out of the Depths and on to the March
  6. The Quest for Containment
  7. Shouting the Battle Cry of Union
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations Used in the Notes
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: Killing for Coal
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Justine Miani

Thomas G. Andrews is Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Denver.