| Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields Revised Edition Contributor(s): Michrina, Barry P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813191041 ISBN-13: 9780813191041 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Technology & Engineering | Mining - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 331.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.57 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 -- undercutting the stereotypical picture of the rebellious miner. |
