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Wheeling's Polonia : reconstructing Polish community in a West Virginia steel town /

"William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the Upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United Stat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gorby, William Hal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Colección:West Virginia and Appalachia
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Wheeling Might Appropriately Be Called a Polish City": A Local Look at the Polish Migration, 1870-1915 -- 2. "There Has Always Been a Tough Element in That Section": Work, Culture, and Society in South Wheeling and Benwood -- 3. The Heart of the Community: Polish Catholics at St. Ladislaus Parish, 1890-1917 -- 4. Finding a Good Job and a Good Union for Polonia: Polish Workers within Wheeling's Labor Movement, 1890-1915 
505 8 |a 5. Proving Their Loyalty: Wheeling's Polish Immigrants during World War I -- 6. Struggling for Economic Security: Polonia during the 1919 Steel Strike and the Roaring Twenties -- 7. Polonia Adapts to the "New Era" of the 1920s -- 8. Moonshiners and Bootleggers: New Immigrants and the Selective Enforcement of Prohibition in Wheeling -- 9. Polonia in the Great Depression and the Rise of the CIO at Wheeling Steel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
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