[PDF.02vm] Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

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 | #5030900 in Books |  The University Press of Kentucky |  2004-11-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.46 x5.51l,.57 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Insightful, sympathetic, and evocative study.|By William J. Shepherd|Dr. Michrina is to be commended for producing an insightful, sympathetic, and evocative study of the mining folk primarily of the central Pennsylvania county of Cambria. He also strives to document the general period of depression in the coal-mining industry, 1922-1942, and especially the traumatic events of|From Booklist|Michrina integrates a scholarly reserve with oral histories (the latter gathered from coal miners in Cambria County, Pennsylvania) to portray the great Pennsylvania coal strike of 1927. Michrina grew

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'...

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