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Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Release : 1984
Genre : Anthracite coal
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Book Synopsis Defining the Anthracite Resources of Northeastern Pennsylvania by : United States. Bureau of Mines
Download or read book Defining the Anthracite Resources of Northeastern Pennsylvania written by United States. Bureau of Mines. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Keil
Release : 2014-12-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Anthracite's Demise and the Post-Coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania by : Thomas Keil
Download or read book Anthracite's Demise and the Post-Coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania written by Thomas Keil. This book was released on 2014-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the anthracite coal trade's emergence and legacy in the five counties that constituted the core of the industry, the authors explain the split in the modes of production between entrepreneurial production and corporate production and the consequences of each for the two major anthracite regions. This book argues that the initial conditions in which the anthracite industry developed led to differences in the way workers organized and protested working conditions and the way in which the two regions were affected by the decline of the industry and two subsequent waves of deindustrialization. The authors examine the bourgeois class formation in the coal regions and its consequences for differential regional growth and urbanization. This is given context through their investigation of class conflict in the region and the struggle of workers to build a stable union that would represent their interests, as well as the struggles within the union that finally emerged as the dominant force (the United Mine Workers of American) between conservative business unionists and progressive forces. Lastly, the authors explore the demise of anthracite as the dominant industry, the attempt to attract replacement industries, the subsequent two waves of deindustrialization in the region, and the current economic conditions that prevail in the former coal counties and the cities in them. This book includes a discussion of local politics and the emergence of a strong labor-Democratic tie in the northern anthracite region and a weaker tie between labor and the Democratic party in the central and southern fields.
Author : MICHAEL G. RUSHTON
Release : 2024-07-31
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Relics of Anthracite in Northeastern Pennsylvania by : MICHAEL G. RUSHTON
Download or read book Relics of Anthracite in Northeastern Pennsylvania written by MICHAEL G. RUSHTON. This book was released on 2024-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relics of Anthracite in Northeastern Pennsylvania: Volume III continues to explore the former anthracite industry through photography. The last three standing coal breakers in the Wyoming Valley--the Huber, the Harry E., and the Sullivan Trail--are gone. Only some culm dumps and tainted streams and rivers remain to remind us of King Coal. Monuments and historical markers keep the memories alive.
Author : Peter Roberts
Release : 1901
Genre : Anthracite coal
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Book Synopsis The anthracite coal industry, a study of the economic conditions [&c.] in the development of the anthracite coal industry of Pennsylvania by : Peter Roberts
Download or read book The anthracite coal industry, a study of the economic conditions [&c.] in the development of the anthracite coal industry of Pennsylvania written by Peter Roberts. This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dublin
Release : 2016-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Face of Decline by : Thomas Dublin
Download or read book The Face of Decline written by Thomas Dublin. This book was released on 2016-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.
