Description: From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland. It was the largest unincorporated coal-mining community in Iowa and the majority of its 5000 residents were African Americans - unusual for a state which was over 90 per cent white.
Review Quotes: "[Buxton] is a detailed and informative study of a significant event in American industrial relations. Richly documented and lucidly presented, it illustrates the power that employers in this country historically wielded to shape the social life of workers."