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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
Contributor:
Harris, Howard.
Blatz, Perry K.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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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