The Miners Of Windber

Author : Mildred A. Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271015675
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Mildred Allen Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271029900
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Allen Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. 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. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.

Author : Mildred A. Beik
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1396 pages
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Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074566
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. 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. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.

Author : Damian Dressick
Publisher : Appalachian Writing
ISBN 13 : 9781947504196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 Patchtown written by Damian Dressick and published by Appalachian Writing. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by incidents during the 1922 coal strike in Pennsylvania, Dressick spent months researching the rhythms of early coal town life. Interviewing family members, he immersed himself in the coal heritage materials, many housed at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Frederick Barthelme states "Dressick is an artist to be reckoned with."

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Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Remembering the Strike for Union in 1906 in Windber, Pa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Mine Workers of America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
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Download or read book United Mine Workers Journal written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaclyn LaPlaca
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524528
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Somerset County written by Jaclyn LaPlaca and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somerset County, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands, drew its first settlers from the earliest waves of western migrants. Coal miners later fueled the fires of Johnstown's, Pittsburgh's, and the nation's industry, while artists from around the world were drawn to the region's mountainous beauty. At mining's height, entire Sicilian communities moved here, along with hopeful settlers from Poland and Slovakia who also brought their heritage and pride.

Author : Powers Hapgood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book In Non-union Mines written by Powers Hapgood and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph J. Badowski
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 406 written by Joseph J. Badowski and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical fiction that I have written about the 1960 baseball World Series, specifically about game 7 of that series, that many baseball experts feel was the greatest game ever played in the history of Major League Baseball. The seventh game of that World Series was played on a sunny fall day on October 13, 1960, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On that date, around 3:00 p.m., Bill Mazeroski, the second baseman for the Pirates, hit a walk-off home run in the top of the ninth inning to win the game. On the second pitch thrown by Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry, Mazeroski hit a ball over the 402 sign in left field, which gave the Pirates an improbable and almost miraculous win over the heavily favored New York Yankees. This home run was the highlight of the many strange and dramatic plays that took place during game 7, which makes that game one for all ages and one that would make for an excellent script for any Hollywood movie. This book, however, is about more than the 1960 World Series. It is also about two nine-year-old boys who meet each other in the summer of 1960 and who become close friends, united by not only baseball but also by a crisis that plagues one of the main character's family. Daniel Pryzinski and Adam Brodziak are the two fictional characters in this book who meet each other by chance during the summer of 1960. Daniel lives in the Polish Hill section of Pittsburgh, while Adam lives in a small rural coal-mining town in western Pennsylvania, sixty miles from Pittsburgh. The two meet each other by chance when Adam's family is invited to stay with Daniel's family while they are attending a Polish Festival in Pittsburgh. While staying with the Pryzinski family, the Brodziaks discover a dark secret. Daniel's father, Peter, is an alcoholic whose drinking problems are so bad that it threatens to destroy the Pryzinski family. Daniel's mother, Pauline, is desperately trying to hold the family together but is on the verge of leaving her husband. She is a devout Catholic, so that decision was one that she did not want to make. Besides, she loved her husband so much that she was willing to do anything to help him recover from his drinking problem. Through the intervention of the Brodziaks and their family doctor, Tom Slevic, they are able to convince Peter to admit himself to an Alcohol Rehab Center in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Although the focus of this book is the seventh game of the 1960 World Series, it is the relationship of the fictional characters that will show the reader how reliance upon family and friends and hope in God and faith can serve to change the lives of so many whose loved ones are affected by alcohol or other types of addiction or substance abuse.