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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of St. Mary's Church, Iowa City, Iowa
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Souvenir Book, Diamond Jubilee, St. Martin's Church, 1865-1940
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Miners of Windber
Author: Mildred A. Beik
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271015675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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"Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271015675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
"Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.
The Miners of Windber
Author: Mildred Allen Beik
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271029900
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271029900
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Faith and Action
Author: Roger Antonio Fortin
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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"Based on extensive primary archival materials, Faith and Action is a comprehensive history of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati over the past 175 years. Fortin paints a picture of the Catholic Church's involvement in the city's development and contextualizes the changing values and programs of the Church in the region. He characterizes the institution's history as one of both faith and action. From the time of its founding to the present, the way Catholics in the archdiocese of Cincinnati have viewed their relationship with the rest of society has changed with each major change in society. In the beginning, while espousing separation of church and state and religious liberty, they wanted the Church to adapt to the new American situation. In the mid-nineteenth century Cincinnati Catholics dealt with a dominant Protestant culture and, at times, a hostile environment, whereas a century later it had become much more a part of the American mainstream. Throughout most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most Catholics saw themselves as outsiders. During the past fifty years, however, Cincinnati Catholics, like most of their counterparts in the United States, have felt more confident and viewed themselves as very much a part of American society"--Publisher's description
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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"Based on extensive primary archival materials, Faith and Action is a comprehensive history of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati over the past 175 years. Fortin paints a picture of the Catholic Church's involvement in the city's development and contextualizes the changing values and programs of the Church in the region. He characterizes the institution's history as one of both faith and action. From the time of its founding to the present, the way Catholics in the archdiocese of Cincinnati have viewed their relationship with the rest of society has changed with each major change in society. In the beginning, while espousing separation of church and state and religious liberty, they wanted the Church to adapt to the new American situation. In the mid-nineteenth century Cincinnati Catholics dealt with a dominant Protestant culture and, at times, a hostile environment, whereas a century later it had become much more a part of the American mainstream. Throughout most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most Catholics saw themselves as outsiders. During the past fifty years, however, Cincinnati Catholics, like most of their counterparts in the United States, have felt more confident and viewed themselves as very much a part of American society"--Publisher's description
Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of Holy Trinity Parish, Pine Grove, Wisconsin (Brown County) 1880-1955
Author: Benedict H. Marx
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Category : Pine Grove (Brown County, Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Pine Grove (Brown County, Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Heralds of the King
Author: Marion Alphonse Habig
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Category : Middle West
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Category : Middle West
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Illinois Catholic Historical Review
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Peoples of Pennsylvania
Author: David E. Washburn
Publisher: Inquiry International
ISBN: 9780822942061
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher: Inquiry International
ISBN: 9780822942061
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Faithful Servants
Author: Roger F. Krentz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257984209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Short biographies of the priests who ministered to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Princeton, Wi from 1870 to the present.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257984209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Short biographies of the priests who ministered to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Princeton, Wi from 1870 to the present.