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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Autor principal: Arnold, Andrew Bernard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Railroads.
Labor unions.
Labor movement.
Coal mines and mining.
Coal miners.
HISTORY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvement ouvrier > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Syndicats > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mineurs de charbon > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Railroads > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Coal mines and mining > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Labor movement > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Labor unions > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Coal miners > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvanie > Conditions sociales.
Pennsylvania > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 they had for generations. In the popular imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called ""Molly Maguire"" terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners acc
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780814724958

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