Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow . Edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya.

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Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow . Edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) The Ludlow Massacre climaxed the 1913–1914 southern Colorado coal strike, drawing national attention largely because two women and twelve children were among the dead. But others died throughout the strike and its violent aftermath. Nor was Ludlow uniquely violent among U.S. labor conflicts, even in claiming children. Nonetheless, most histories have focused on the massacre and on conditions in the mines and company towns before the strike. Making an American Workforce examines what came next. Published in conjunction with the 2014 strike centennial, eight … jameson{at}ucalgary.ca