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Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Culture, Labor, History)
Fueling the Gilded Age Railroads Miners and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country - Culture, Labor, History
Author: Andrew 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 they had for generations. In the popular imaginat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780814764985
ISBN-10: 0814764983
Publication Date: 4/11/2014
Pages: 288
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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