Pennsylvania Mining Families : The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields /

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In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildre...

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Autor principal: Michrina, Barry P. (Barry Paul), 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining.
Coal miners.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Greves et lock-out > Mines de charbon > Pennsylvanie > Cambria > Histoire.
Mineurs de charbon > Pennsylvanie > Cambria > Histoire.
Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining > Pennsylvania > Cambria County > History.
Coal miners > Pennsylvania > Cambria County > History.
Pennsylvania > Cambria County.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices, the miners' own views about their ever-evolving situation, and relationships between miners and mining companies -- undercutting the stereotyp.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780813149004

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