Open Access Edition of Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950 by Jarod Roll.

FAIN: DR-280008-21

University of North Carolina Press, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288)
Mark Simpson-Vos (Project Director: December 2020 to October 2022)

This project will publish the book Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950, written by NEH Fellow Jarod Roll (NEH grant number FA-251814-17), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

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Single Publication (Open Access eBook or Collection)
Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950
Year: 2020
ISBN: 97814696563
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Jarod Roll
Editor: Brandon Proia
Abstract: White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man’s Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.
Primary URL: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656298/poor-mans-fortune/
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Secondary URL: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Mans-Fortune-Working-Class-Conservatism-ebook/dp/B07XDDJJH9/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9781469656304&qid=1586808925&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
Secondary URL Description: Kindle
URL 3: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/poor-mans-fortune-jarod-roll/1133382774?ean=9781469656304
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URL 4: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469656311_roll
URL 4 Description: JSTOR
URL 5: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/74161
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Type: Single author monograph

Prizes

Clark C. Spence Award
Date: 6/12/2021
Organization: Mining History Association

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