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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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