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Pennsylvania Mining Families (Paperback)

The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

World History > The Americas > USA

Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 200
Illustrations: 12 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN: 9780813191041
Published: 19th November 2004
Casemate UK Academic

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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 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 stereotypical picture of the rebellious miner.

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