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Keystone of democracy : a history of Pennsylvania workers Howard Harris, editor ; Perry K. Blatz, associate editor ; Ronald L. Fillippeli ... [et al.]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA HD 8083.P43.K447 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor movement--Pennsylvania--History.
- Labor movement.
- Working class--Pennsylvania--History.
- Working class.
- Pennsylvania--History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999.
- Contents:
- Colonial work, colonial workers / Ronald L. Filippelli
- Printing / Ronald L. Filippelli
- An industrial giant takes shape, 1800-1872 / Ken Fones-Wolf
- The battle of Clearfield Creek / Howard Harris
- Disaster at Avondale / Howard Harris
- Titanic struggles, 1873-1916 / Perry K. Blatz
- Terence V. Powderly / Perry K. Blatz
- The Lattimer massacre / Kenneth C. Wolensky
- Rinaldo Cappellini, the Knox Mine Disaster and the decline of the anthracite coal industry / Perry K. Blatz and Robert P. Wolensky
- Shaping a new labor movement, 1917-1941 / Peter Gottlieb
- James Hudson Maurer / John C. Brennan
- Thomas Kennedy, "the little giant of the anthracite" / Maier B. Fox
- Van Amberg Bittner, 1885-1949 / Russell Gibbons
- Glory days, 1941-1969 / Mark McColloch
- The postwar strike wave: the case of the plate glass workers / Richard O'Connor
- Philip Murray: Pennsylvania's mid-century labor giant / Louis Pappalardo
- Gaston Le Blanc: union activist / Paul LeBlanc
- Amy Ballinger: Pittsburgh's first lady of labor / Dale Newman
- Min Matheson and the Wyoming Valley District of the ILGWU / Kenneth C. and Robert P. Wolensky
- Pittsburgh teachers and collective bargaining / John Tarka
- Hard times and new hopes, 1970-1997 / Howard Harris
- Act 195 / Harry Boyer
- Lock Haven's last Piper airplane / Howard Harris
- Conflict and compromise in the western Pennsylvania construction industry / Howard Harris.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0892710845
- OCLC:
- 42795582
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