The Miners of Windber

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  • The Miners of Windber Book Detail

  • Author : Mildred A. Beik
  • Release Date : 1996
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 482
  • ISBN 13 : 9780271015675
  • File Size : 34,34 MB
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The Miners of Windber by Mildred A. Beik PDF Summary

Book Description: "Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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