Undermined in coal country : on the measures in a working land /

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"Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their fortunes elsewhere. Once dominated by the boom-and-busts of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Conlogue, William (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Marywood University > History.
Marywood University
Anthracite coal mines and mining > Pennsylvania > Scranton > History.
Anthracite coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Scranton.
Anthracite coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects > Pennsylvania > Scranton.
Place (Philosophy) > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Scranton.
Community and college > Pennsylvania > Scranton.
Lieu (Philosophie) > Aspect social > Pennsylvanie > Scranton.
Relations université-collectivité > Pennsylvanie > Scranton.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Anthracite coal mines and mining
Community and college
Ecology
Social conditions
Scranton (Pa.) > History.
Scranton (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Scranton (Pa.) > Environmental conditions.
Pennsylvania > Scranton
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Working the Face ; Note; Acknowledgments; Timeline; One: Campus as Question ; Two: Wood ; Three: Fire ; Four: In the Gaps ; Five: Body Language ; Six: On Broken Ground ; Seven: Burying Books ; Conclusion: Working Home ; Notes; Works Cited; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Photographs.

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