Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

by Barry P. Michrina

In Pennsylvania Mining Families , Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191041
• ISBN13: 9780813191041
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher