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Anthracite's Demise and the Post-Coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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Anthracite's Demise and the Post-Coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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Examining the anthracite coal trade's emergence and legacy in the
five counties that constituted the core of the industry, the
authors explain the split in the modes of production between
entrepreneurial production and corporate production and the
consequences of each for the two major anthracite regions. This
book argues that the initial conditions in which the anthracite
industry developed led to differences in the way workers organized
and protested working conditions and the way in which the two
regions were affected by the decline of the industry and two
subsequent waves of deindustrialization. The authors examine the
bourgeois class formation in the coal regions and its consequences
for differential regional growth and urbanization. This is given
context through their investigation of class conflict in the region
and the struggle of workers to build a stable union that would
represent their interests, as well as the struggles within the
union that finally emerged as the dominant force (the United Mine
Workers of American) between conservative business unionists and
progressive forces. Lastly, the authors explore the demise of
anthracite as the dominant industry, the attempt to attract
replacement industries, the subsequent two waves of
deindustrialization in the region, and the current economic
conditions that prevail in the former coal counties and the cities
in them. This book includes a discussion of local politics and the
emergence of a strong labor-Democratic tie in the northern
anthracite region and a weaker tie between labor and the Democratic
party in the central and southern fields.
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