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Fueling the Gilded Age : railroads, miners, and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country Andrew B. Arnold
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA HD 8039 .M62 U6132 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Andrew B. (Andrew Bernard)
- Series:
- Culture, labor, history
- Culture, labor, history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Coal miners.
- Labor unions--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Labor unions.
- Labor movement--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Labor movement.
- Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Railroads--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Railroads.
- Pennsylvania--Social conditions.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- x, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- part I. HUBRIS: 1. Cultural: Coal Mining and Community, 1872; 2. Formal: The Right to Strike, 1875; 3. Secret: Regional Leadership Networks, 1875-1882
- part II. HUMILITY: 4. Compromise: The Great Upheaval in Coal, 1886
- part III. STALEMATE: 5. Origins: New Organizational Forms, 1886-1890; 6. Association: Organization and Industry, 1890-1894; 7. National Scale: A Living Wage for Capital and for Labor, 1895-1902
- Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded Age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814764985
- 0814764983
- 0814724957
- 9780814724958
- OCLC:
- 860944236
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
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