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The miners of Windber : the struggles of new immigrants for unionization, 1890s-1930s / Mildred Allen Beik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beik, Mildred A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--Pennsylvania--Windber--History.
- Coal miners.
- Foreign workers--Pennsylvania--Windber--History.
- Foreign workers.
- Coal miners--Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Windber--History.
- Coal miners--Labor unions.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--Windber.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, to join the United Mine Workers of America, and to bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-423) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271015667
- 0271015675
- OCLC:
- 33666007
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