A detailed look at the Colorado coal miners’ strike and its broader impact on labor relations.
This volume compiles testimonies, exhibits, and analyses from the Commission on Industrial Relations, offering a window into early 20th‑century disputes between miners, mine owners, and the communities that surrounded closed camps. It presents the questions, debates, and practical concerns that shaped work, housing, and governance in mining towns, as well as the costs and consequences of organizing labor.
- Frontline testimony from workers, owners, and investigators about camp conditions, wages, and living arrangements.
- Discussion of company towns, closed camps, and the debate over who should control housing, stores, schooling, and doctors.
- Analysis of the financial and logistical strains of strikes and anti‑union strategies on communities and industries.
- Context for how industrial relations policy was formed and what it meant for workers and employers.
Ideal for readers of labor history, public policy, and the evolution of industrial relations in America.