Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry

by Kenneth Warren

Book Overview

The southwestern Pennsylvania town of Connellsville lay in the middle of a massive reserve of high quality coal. Connellsville coal was so soft and easily worked that one man and a boy could cut and load ten tons of it in ten hours. This region became a major source of coke, a vital material in industrial processes, above all in steel manufacture, producing forty-seven percent of America s supply in 1913. But by the 1920s, what had seemed to be a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822966212
• ISBN13: 9780822966210
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"