Poor Man's Fortune

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 Fort...

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description 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.
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spellingShingle white working class conservatism
anti-unionism in metal mining
white nationalism
metal mining in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
strikebreaking
zinc industry
lead industry
working-class ideas about capitalism
working-class ideas about disease
Western Federation of Miners
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
leasehold mining
working-class manhood and masculinity
working-class nativism
working-class xenophobia
working-class racism
anti-monopoly
tariffs
Mickey Mantle
market incentives
working-class responses to government regulation
risk at work
whiteness
Tar Creek
Picher, Oklahoma
Joplin, Missouri
Galena, Kansas
Roll, Jarod
Poor Man's Fortune
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topic white working class conservatism
anti-unionism in metal mining
white nationalism
metal mining in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
strikebreaking
zinc industry
lead industry
working-class ideas about capitalism
working-class ideas about disease
Western Federation of Miners
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
leasehold mining
working-class manhood and masculinity
working-class nativism
working-class xenophobia
working-class racism
anti-monopoly
tariffs
Mickey Mantle
market incentives
working-class responses to government regulation
risk at work
whiteness
Tar Creek
Picher, Oklahoma
Joplin, Missouri
Galena, Kansas
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anti-unionism in metal mining
white nationalism
metal mining in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
strikebreaking
zinc industry
lead industry
working-class ideas about capitalism
working-class ideas about disease
Western Federation of Miners
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
leasehold mining
working-class manhood and masculinity
working-class nativism
working-class xenophobia
working-class racism
anti-monopoly
tariffs
Mickey Mantle
market incentives
working-class responses to government regulation
risk at work
whiteness
Tar Creek
Picher, Oklahoma
Joplin, Missouri
Galena, Kansas
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