Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Reports of the Heads of Departments of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Reports of the Heads of Departments to the Governor of Pennsylvania, in Pursuance of the Law for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Governor's Message and Reports of the Heads of Departments
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year Ending ...
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the Year Ending...
Author: Pa. Department of Internal Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Reports of the Heads of Depts., Transmitted to the Governor of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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The Miners of Windber
Author: Mildred Beik
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074566
Category : History
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.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074566
Category : History
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.
Journal
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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