Download or read book The Face of Decline written by Thomas Dublin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.

Download or read book Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region written by John Stuart Richards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.

Download or read book Anthracite Roots written by Joseph W. Leonard and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By sharing the experiences, triumphs and tragedies of my own family, in this book I provide a personal look at what life was like in the early coal-mining industry and how that industry has evolved and improved to become one of America's most important industries."--Page 12.

Download or read book Coalcracker Culture written by Harold W. Aurand and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge that they traded their lives for a job generated an overarching fear of losing their income."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Anthracite Coal Industry written by Peter Roberts and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1901 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brief Description of the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania written by Charles Albert Ashburner and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry 1860 1902 written by Richard G. Healey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Recurrent and non-recurrent economic fluctuations at the national level -- Constraints on business decision-making-the impact of geology, topography and mining technology -- Prior investment in mining and transportation infrastructure -- Railroad expansion and corporate control -- Network development strategies and the articulation of the anthracite distribution region in interior markets -- Railroad expansion and corporate control II: tidewater markets, trunk line connections and comparative economic performance -- Waxing and waning markets I: sectoral shifts in the use of anthracite -- Waxing and waning markets II: the changing geography of market power -- Waxing and waning markets III : regional shifts, price behaviour and the changing size -- Composition of anthracite production -- Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels I : precursors and pre-disposing factors to industry-wide combination -- Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels II: the 1873 combination and its successors -- Developing and managing the coal estate -- Region building I: financing development in the mining economy -- Region building II: investment in new mining and railroad capacity -- Regional retrenchment: rationalization and reorganisation in the Schuylkill region 1872-1902 -- Regional dynamics, disequilibrium tendencies and regional economic development -- Notes for chapters 1-16 -- Preface to bibliography.

Download or read book Report of the Anthracite Coal Industry Commission written by Pennsylvania. Anthracite Coal Industry Commission and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania for the Year written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of the Inspector of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Inspector of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania for the Year written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthracite Mining Laws of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania and Their Exhaustion written by Peter Wenrick Sheafer and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prospectus of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Co Located Near Scranton and Pittston Lackawanna Valley Luzerne County Pa written by Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Company and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania 1881 written by Pennsylvania Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: