Fueling the Gilded Age : Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country /
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Culture, labor, history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |