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Pennsylvania mining families : the search for dignity in the coalfields /

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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Michrina, Barry P. (Barry Paul), 1947- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813149004
0813149002