Fueling the Gilded Age : Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnold, Andrew Bernard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Colección:Culture, labor, history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Coal miners > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Labor unions > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Labor movement > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Coal mines and mining > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Railroads > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Mineurs de charbon > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Syndicats > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mouvement ouvrier > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > General.
Coal miners
Coal mines and mining
Labor movement
Labor unions
Railroads
Social conditions
Pennsylvania > Social conditions.
Pennsylvanie > Conditions sociales.
Pennsylvania
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; About Lewis Hine's Photographs; Introduction: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900; PART I. HUBRIS; 1. Cultural: Coal Mining and Community, 1872; 2. Formal: The Right to Strike, 1875; 3. Secret: Regional Leadership Networks, 1875-1882; PART II. HUMILITY; 4. Compromise: The Great Upheaval in Coal, 1886; PART III. STALEMATE; 5. Origins: New Organizational Forms, 1886-1890; 6. Association: Organization and Industry, 1890-1894; 7. National Scale: A Living Wage for Capital and for Labor, 1895-1902.
  • Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded AgeAcknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.

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