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Anthracite's demise and the post-coal economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania Thomas J. Keil and Jacqueline M. Keil
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA HD 9547 .P4 K45 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keil, Thomas J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthracite coal industry--Pennsylvania--History.
- Anthracite coal industry.
- Anthracite coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--History.
- Anthracite coal mines and mining.
- Pennsylvania--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 145 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- A brief history of northeastern Pennsylvania's early settlement and development
- Bourgeois class formation in the coalfields
- Worker rebellion and the problems of worker solidarity
- Industrial unionism reemerges in the coalfields
- The post-1902 strike era
- The demise of anthracite and the rise of a politically organized working class
- Subsequent waves of deindustrialization
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9781611461756
- 1611461758
- OCLC:
- 887858516
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