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Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

Michrina, Barry P.

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Technology & Engineering20th Century United States HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 0813191041
ISBN13: 9780813191041
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Nov 19 2004
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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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