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Brisbin,, Richard A. was born on January 10, 1948 in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Richard A. and Frances M. (Kornman) Brisbin.
( The miners' strike against Pittston Coal in 1989–1990, ...)
The miners' strike against Pittston Coal in 1989–1990, which spread throughout southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, was one of the most important strikes in the history of American labor, and, as Richard Brisbin observes, "one of the longest and largest incidents of civil disorder and civil disobedience in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century." The company aggressively sought to break the strike, and workers and their families used a variety of tactics—lawful and unlawful—to resist Pittston's efforts as the situation quickly turned ugly. In A Strike like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989–1990, Richard Brisbin offers a compelling study of the exercise of political power. In considering the legal significance of the strike, Brisbin asks the larger question of whether even extreme transgression or resistance can fracture the "imagined coherence of the law." He shows how each party in the strike invoked the law to justify its actions while attacking those of the other side as unlawful. In the end, both sides lost; although the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled in favor of the union, most of the strikers faced elimination of their jobs and an ongoing struggle for pensions and health benefits.
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( West Virginia Politics and Government offers the only r...)
West Virginia Politics and Government offers the only recent study of politics in the Mountain State. Combining new empirical information about political behavior with a close examination of the capacity of the state’s government, this second edition is a comprehensive and pointed study of the ability of the state’s government to respond to the needs of a largely rural and relatively low-income population. The authors discuss public demands on state government, the shaping of the political agenda by interest groups, elections and the role of political parties, and the influence of the federal government on the state’s political and administrative functions. The book also examines the nature of the state’s constitution and the role of governmental institutions, including the state legislature, the governor, and the state bureaucracy, in the making of public policy and the construction of a state budget, as well as the judiciary and local governments. The concluding chapter assesses the future of governance in the state.
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Brisbin,, Richard A. was born on January 10, 1948 in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Richard A. and Frances M. (Kornman) Brisbin.
Bachelor, West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1969. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1975.
Professor Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 1974-1975, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1975-1979, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1979-1985, State University of New York, Potsdam, 1985-1986, West Virginia University, Morgantown, since 1986.
( The miners' strike against Pittston Coal in 1989–1990, ...)
( West Virginia Politics and Government offers the only r...)
All human life is sacred and created by God and therefore, we must see all human life as significant and valuable. When governments implement the death penalty, then the life of the convicted person is devalued and all possibility of change in that person’s life ends.
The very idea that one gender is superior to another should be rejected as well as the erroneous notion that members of one gender may receive love, power, and esteem only at the expense of another.
Private United States Army, 1970. Member American Political Science Association, West Virginia Political Science Association (president 1997-1998).