Today we are discussing the Ludlow Massacre that happened in Southern Colorado in 1914. We discuss the massacre and conditions for miners at the turn of the century. Fight for your right to listen to this episode of Under the Pendulum. 

Sources: 

Walker, M. (2003). The Ludlow Massacre: Class, Warfare, and Historical Memory in Southern Colorado. Historical Archaeology, 37(3), 66–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25617081

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/hastings-mine-explosion

McGuire, R. H., & Reckner, P. (2002). The Unromantic West: Labor, Capital, and Struggle. Historical Archaeology, 36(3), 44–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25617011

Rosenbloom, J. L. (1998). Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881-1894. The Journal of Economic History, 58(1), 183–205. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2566258

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-ludlow-massacre

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/msha/msha20210113

https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5737/