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Author Arnold, Andrew Bernard, author.

Title Fueling the Gilded Age : railroads, miners, and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country / Andrew B. Arnold.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, 2014.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.7622335 Ar64f 2014    ---  Available
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Description x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Series Culture, labor, history series
Culture, labor, history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index.
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.
Subject Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Labor unions -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Labor movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Pennsylvania -- Social conditions.
Coal miners. (OCoLC)fst00865316
Coal mines and mining. (OCoLC)fst00865355
Labor movement. (OCoLC)fst00990079
Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
Railroads. (OCoLC)fst01088711
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
Pennsylvania. (OCoLC)fst01204598
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780814764985 (hardback)
0814764983 (hardback)
0814724957 (electronic bk.)
9780814724958 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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