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What a 1902 coal strike tells us about essential workers today
19 mins | May 7, 2020
Miners helped forge a new kind of social contract in America — could it happen again? Essential workers have been overlooked before. Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, Susan Berfield looks at the 1902 coal strike and reflects on the example it set going forward, and why it could provide guidance for modern workers as well.
