The southwestern Pennsylvania town of Connellsville lay in the
middle of a massive reserve of high quality coal. Connellsville
coal was so soft and easily worked that one man and a boy could cut
and load ten tons of it in ten hours. This region became a major
source of coke, a vital material in industrial processes, above all
in steel manufacture, producing forty-seven percent of America`s
supply in 1913. But by the 1920s, what had seemed to be a gold mine
was turning into a devastating economic, environmental and social
loss. In Wealth, Waste, and Alienation, Kenneth Warren draws from
primary source material, including the minutes and letters of the
Carnegie Steel Company, the United States Steel Corporation, and
the archives of Henry Clay Frick, to explain the birth, phenomenal
growth, decline and death of the Connellsville coke industry. Its
rich natural resources produced wealth for individuals, companies,
and some communities, but as Warren shows, there was also social
alienation, waste, and devastation of the natural environment. The
complicated structure of enterprise, capital, and labor which made
this region flourish unwound almost as quickly as it arose,
creating repercussions that are still reverberating in what's left
of Connellsville today, a kind of postindustrial rural shell of its
former productive glory.
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