Roving Pickets materials, c.1991
Sub-Series (ap.afc.07.08)
- Extent
- 71 Video cassettes
- 3 Photo prints
- 1 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VII. Appalshop Films 1991-1999 > Roving Pickets materials, c.1991
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary Roving Pickets, a 1991 release. The documentary looks at the post-1950s coal industry in Eastern Kentucky and how mechanization in the auto, steel and energy industries led small coal operators to nullify union contracts in order to reduce costs. The consequences of these changes on rural communities are examined in interviews with miners, coal operators and other participants who discuss reduced wages, unemployment, out-migration, and, in 1961 and 1962, the cancellation of union health insurance benefits and the threatened closing of the UMWA hospitals. Subjects include the United Mine Workers Union, coal miners, the coal trade, rural conditions, economic conditions and the mining trade in southeastern Kentucky.
- Related Work
- Roving Pickets
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