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The Miners Of Windber
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Author : Mildred A. Beik
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1996
The Miners Of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
"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
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Author : Mildred Beik
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1996-08-23
The Miners Of Windber written by Mildred Beik and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-23 with History categories.
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.
The Miners Of Windber
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Author : Mildred A. Beik
language : en
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Release Date : 1989
The Miners Of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Coal miners categories.
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Author : Mildred Beik
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1996-08-23
The Miners Of Windber written by Mildred Beik and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-23 with History categories.
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.
Remembering The Strike For Union In 1906 In Windber Pa
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language : en
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Release Date : 1997
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Remembering The Strike For Union In 1922 23 In Windber And Somerset County Pa 75 Years Later
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language : en
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Release Date : 1997
Remembering The Strike For Union In 1922 23 In Windber And Somerset County Pa 75 Years Later written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Coal Strike, Somerset County, Pa., 1922-1923 categories.
The Miners
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language : en
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Release Date : 1939*
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Somerset County
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Author : Jaclyn LaPlaca
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Somerset County written by Jaclyn LaPlaca and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Somerset County, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands, drew its first settlers from the earliest waves of western migrants. Coal miners later fueled the fires of Johnstown's, Pittsburgh's, and the nation's industry, while artists from around the world were drawn to the region's mountainous beauty. At mining's height, entire Sicilian communities moved here, along with hopeful settlers from Poland and Slovakia who also brought their heritage and pride.
The Miners
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Author : Inc (Corp Authors) Time-Life Books
language : en
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Release Date : 1974
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Class Conscious Coal Miners
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Author : Alan J. Singer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2024-05-01
Class Conscious Coal Miners written by Alan J. Singer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with History categories.
Bituminous coal miners in Central Pennsylvania were among the most militant and class-conscious workers in the United States in the post-World War I era. Class-Conscious Coal Miners examines the development of working-class consciousness as they fought to sustain their union, jobs, communities, and work pejoratives, what they described as the Miner's Freedom, against mechanization and operator open shop drives in the 1920s. Their struggles brought them into conflict with coal companies, a pro-business federal government, and the business-unionist leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. After the collapse of the bituminous coal industry in Central Pennsylvania starting in the 1950s, working-class consciousness gradually diminished until, in the present century, there has been a marked shift toward political conservatism.
