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1 online resource (288 pages). |
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text file |
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Culture, Labor, History Series
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Culture, labor, history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; About Lewis Hine's Photographs; Introduction: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900; 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. |
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Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded AgeAcknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author. |
| Summary |
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they had for generations. In the popular imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called ""Molly Maguire"" terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners acc. |
| Local Note |
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Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Coal miners. |
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Pennsylvania. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Labor unions -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Labor unions. |
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Labor movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Labor movement. |
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Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Coal mines and mining. |
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Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Railroads. |
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Pennsylvania -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arnold, Andrew Bernard. Fueling the Gilded Age. New York : New York University Press, 2014 9780814764985 (DLC) 2013043410 (OCoLC)860944236 |
| ISBN |
9780814724958 (electronic book) |
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0814724957 (electronic book) |
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9780814764985 (hardback) |
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0814764983 (hardback) |
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