Pennsylvania Mining Families The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1993.
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Being There, a Reflection; 2 Coal, a Very Hard Subject; 3 The Great Coal Strike of 1927; 4 Emotions Related to the Great Strike; 5 Emotions, Work Values, and Exploitation; 6 Work Is What You Make It; 7 Why Worry?; 8 Emotions Related to Danger; 9 Dignity, a Complex Subject; 10 Reflections upon Leaving; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices, the miners' own views about their ever-evolving situation, and relationships between miners and mining companies --
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