Pennsylvania mining families : the search for dignity in the coalfields /
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 grandchildre...
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.