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Fueling the Gilded Age : railroads, miners, and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country / Andrew B. Arnold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Andrew B. (Andrew Bernard)
- Series:
- Culture, labor, history.
- Culture, labor, history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Railroads.
- Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Labor movement--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Labor movement.
- Labor unions--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Labor unions.
- Coal miners--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Coal miners.
- Pennsylvania--Social conditions.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they had for generations. In the popular imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called ""Molly Maguire"" terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners acc
- Contents:
- part I. Hubris
- part II. Humility
- part III. Stalemate.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814724958
- 0814724957
- OCLC:
- 870951047
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