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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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American Coal Miner
Author: The Economic History of the United States
Author: Ernest Ludlow BogartPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Economic Geology
Author: Heinrich RiesPublisher:
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Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Report
Author: American Geological InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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An Economic History of the United States
Author: Ernest Ludlow BogartPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Dictionary Catalogue ...
Author: Illinois State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Fueling the Gilded Age
Author: Andrew B. ArnoldPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814764568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they had for generations. In the popular imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called “Molly Maguire” terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners accept the purely subordinate role implied by their status. They refused. Fueling the Gilded Age shows how disorder in the coal industry disrupted the strategic plans of the railroads. It does so by expertly intertwining the history of two industries—railroads and coal mining—that historians have generally examined from separate vantage points. It shows the surprising connections between railroad management and miner organizing; railroad freight rate structure and coal mine operations; railroad strategy and strictly local legal precedents. It combines social, economic, and institutional approaches to explain the Gilded Age from the perspective of the relative losers of history rather than the winners. It beckons readers to examine the still-unresolved nature of America’s national conundrum: how to reconcile the competing demands of national corporations, local businesses, and employees.
Electrical Engineering
Author: The Coal Industry
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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