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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michrina, Barry P. (Barry Paul), 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Being There, a Reflection; 2 Coal, a Very Hard Subject; 3 The Great Coal Strike of 1927; 4 Emotions Related to the Great Strike; 5 Emotions, Work Values, and Exploitation; 6 Work Is What You Make It; 7 Why Worry?; 8 Emotions Related to Danger; 9 Dignity, a Complex Subject; 10 Reflections upon Leaving; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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