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Wheeling's Polonia : Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town /
"William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the Upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United Stat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Gorby, William Hal, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Wheeling's Polonia : |b Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town / |c William Hal Gorby. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Morgantown : |b West Virginia University Press, |c 2020. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Wheeling Might Appropriately Be Called a Polish City": A Local Look at the Polish Migration, 1870-1915 -- 2. "There Has Always Been a Tough Element in That Section": Work, Culture, and Society in South Wheeling and Benwood -- 3. The Heart of the Community: Polish Catholics at St. Ladislaus Parish, 1890-1917 -- 4. Finding a Good Job and a Good Union for Polonia: Polish Workers within Wheeling's Labor Movement, 1890-1915 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 5. Proving Their Loyalty: Wheeling's Polish Immigrants during World War I -- 6. Struggling for Economic Security: Polonia during the 1919 Steel Strike and the Roaring Twenties -- 7. Polonia Adapts to the "New Era" of the 1920s -- 8. Moonshiners and Bootleggers: New Immigrants and the Selective Enforcement of Prohibition in Wheeling -- 9. Polonia in the Great Depression and the Rise of the CIO at Wheeling Steel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index | |
| 520 | |a "William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the Upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians' traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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