Do, die, or get along : a tale of two Appalachian towns /

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St. Paul and Dante are six miles apart; measured in other ways, the distance can be greater. Dante, for decades a company town controlled at all levels by the mine owners, has only a recent history of civic initiative. In St. Paul, which arose at a railroad junction, public debate, entrepreneurship,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crow, Peter, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Oral history.
Community life > Virginia > Saint Paul.
Community life > Virginia > Dante.
Coal mines and mining > Virginia > Saint Paul > History.
Coal mines and mining > Virginia > Dante > History.
Company towns > Virginia > Case studies.
Histoire orale.
HISTORY > State & Local.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Coal mines and mining
Community life
Company towns
Oral history
Social conditions
Saint Paul (Va.) > Biography.
Dante (Va.) > Biography.
Saint Paul (Va.) > Social conditions.
Dante (Va.) > Social conditions.
Virginia
Virginia > Dante
Virginia > Saint Paul
Biographies
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontier times
  • Incorporated town: early years
  • Company town: early years
  • Immigrant labor
  • Wild times in St. Paul
  • Civility in St. Paul
  • Great Depression and Dante
  • Race relations in Dante
  • Unionization
  • The two towns interfacing, diverging
  • Mining safety
  • The Strip Mine Act of 1977
  • Regional planning and river politics
  • Company town with no company
  • The Pittston Strike of 1989-90
  • Changing attitudes
  • Women, conservationists, and the economy
  • Education and youth
  • Changing strategy for regional renewal
  • No-company town fights on.

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