Transnational West Virginia : ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940 / edited by Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fones-Wolf, Ken

Contributor:

Fones-Wolf, Ken.

Lewis, Ronald L., 1940-

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

West Virginia and Appalachia ; 1.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

West Virginia and Appalachia ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--West Virginia--History.

Minorities.

Immigrants--West Virginia--History.

Immigrants.

Ethnology--West Virginia--History.

Ethnology.

West Virginia--Ethnic relations.

West Virginia.

West Virginia--Economic conditions.

West Virginia--History--To 1950.

Physical Description:

xviii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown West Virginia University Press, 2003, c2002.

Summary:

West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states.But as this collection of historical studies demonstrates, this state was built by successive waves of immigrant labors, from the antebellum railroad builders to the twentieth-century coal.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

Introduction: Networks Large and Small

Section I: Antebellum Roots

1. Matthew Mason, "Paddy vs. Paddy: Labor Unrestand Provincial Identities along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1849-1851"

2. Ken Fones-Wolf, "Caught between Revolutions: Wheeling Germans in the Civil War Era"

Section II: Niche Communities

3. Elizabeth Cometti, "Swiss Immigration to West Virginia, 1864-1884: A Case Study"

4. Deborah R. Weiner, "From Shtetl to Coalfield: The Migration of East European Jews to Southern West Virginia"

5. Ken Fones-Wolf, "Craft, Ethnicity, and Identity: Belgian Glassworkers in West Virginia, 1898-1940"

Section III: Immigrant Coal Miners

6. Joe William Trotter Jr., "Black Migration to Southern West Virginia"

7. Frederick A. Barkey, " 'Here Come the Boomer 'Talys': Italian Immigrants and Industrial Conflict in the Upper Kanawha Valley, 1903-1917"

8. William B. Klaus, "Uneven Americanization: Italian Immigration to Marion County, 1900-1925"

Section IV: Representations of Ethnic Work Communities

9. Anne Kelly Knowles, "Wheeling Iron and the Welsh: A Geographical Reading of Life in the Iron Mills"

10. Kenneth R. Bailey, "Strange Tongues: West Virginia and Immigrant Labor to 1920"

11. Ronald L. Lewis, "Americanizing Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern West Virginia: Monongalia County between the World Wars"

Epilogue: Leaving West Virginia

12. Susan Johnson, "West Virginia Rubber Workers in Akron"

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

932318783