Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land

by Bill Conlogue

Living in a landscape dominated by mining.

Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their fortunes elsewhere.

Bill Conlogue explores how two overlapping coal country landscapes--Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Marywood University--have coped with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421423189
• ISBN13: 9781421423180
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher