Author: Pennsylvania. CourtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
The District Reports of Cases Decided in All the Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. CourtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
District Reports Containing Cases Decided in the Various Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. CourtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
The Miners of Windber
Author: Mildred BeikPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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
Author: Mildred A. BeikPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271015675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
"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.
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsReport of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
A Cumulated Index to the Books
Author: The Legal Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description