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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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture, Labor, History ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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