Fueling the Gilded Age : : Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country / / Andrew B. Arnold.
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 the...
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Arnold, Andrew B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fueling the Gilded Age : Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country / Andrew B. Arnold. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Culture, Labor, History ; 2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About Lewis Hine’s Photographs -- Introduction: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in 1 the Gilded Age, 1870–1900 -- Part I. Hubris -- 1. Cultural: Coal Mining and Community, 1872 -- 2. Formal: The Right to Strike, 1875 -- 3. Secret: Regional Leadership Networks, 1875–1882 -- Part II. Humility -- 4. Compromise: The Great Upheaval in Coal, 1886 -- Part III. Stalemate -- 5. Origins: New Organizational Forms, 1886–1890 -- 6. Association: Organization and Industry, 1890–1894 -- 7. National Scale: A Living Wage for Capital and for Labor, 1895–1902 -- Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded Age -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Coal miners Pennsylvania History 19th century. Coal mines and mining Pennsylvania History 19th century. Coal mining - Pennsylvania - History - 19th century. Labor movement Pennsylvania History 19th century. Labor unions Pennsylvania History 19th century. Railroads Pennsylvania History 19th century. HISTORY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9780814764985 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814724958 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814724958/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About Lewis Hine’s Photographs -- Introduction: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in 1 the Gilded Age, 1870–1900 -- Part I. Hubris -- 1. Cultural: Coal Mining and Community, 1872 -- 2. Formal: The Right to Strike, 1875 -- 3. Secret: Regional Leadership Networks, 1875–1882 -- Part II. Humility -- 4. Compromise: The Great Upheaval in Coal, 1886 -- Part III. Stalemate -- 5. Origins: New Organizational Forms, 1886–1890 -- 6. Association: Organization and Industry, 1890–1894 -- 7. National Scale: A Living Wage for Capital and for Labor, 1895–1902 -- Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded Age -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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