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Fueling the Gilded Age : Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country / Andrew B. Arnold.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture, Labor, History ; 2Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814764985
  • 9780814724958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.76223350974809034 23
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  • HD8039.M62 U6132 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About Lewis Hine’s Photographs -- Introduction: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in 1 the Gilded Age, 1870–1900 -- Part I. Hubris -- 1. Cultural: Coal Mining and Community, 1872 -- 2. Formal: The Right to Strike, 1875 -- 3. Secret: Regional Leadership Networks, 1875–1882 -- Part II. Humility -- 4. Compromise: The Great Upheaval in Coal, 1886 -- Part III. Stalemate -- 5. Origins: New Organizational Forms, 1886–1890 -- 6. Association: Organization and Industry, 1890–1894 -- 7. National Scale: A Living Wage for Capital and for Labor, 1895–1902 -- Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded Age -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: 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 imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called “Molly Maguire” terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners accept the purely subordinate role implied by their status. They refused. Fueling the Gilded Age shows how disorder in the coal industry disrupted the strategic plans of the railroads. It does so by expertly intertwining the history of two industries-railroads and coal mining-that historians have generally examined from separate vantage points. It shows the surprising connections between railroad management and miner organizing; railroad freight rate structure and coal mine operations; railroad strategy and strictly local legal precedents. It combines social, economic, and institutional approaches to explain the Gilded Age from the perspective of the relative losers of history rather than the winners. It beckons readers to examine the still-unresolved nature of America’s national conundrum: how to reconcile the competing demands of national corporations, local businesses, and employees.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About Lewis Hine’s Photographs -- Introduction: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in 1 the Gilded Age, 1870–1900 -- Part I. Hubris -- 1. Cultural: Coal Mining and Community, 1872 -- 2. Formal: The Right to Strike, 1875 -- 3. Secret: Regional Leadership Networks, 1875–1882 -- Part II. Humility -- 4. Compromise: The Great Upheaval in Coal, 1886 -- Part III. Stalemate -- 5. Origins: New Organizational Forms, 1886–1890 -- 6. Association: Organization and Industry, 1890–1894 -- 7. National Scale: A Living Wage for Capital and for Labor, 1895–1902 -- Conclusion: Failures of Order in the Gilded Age -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

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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 imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called “Molly Maguire” terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners accept the purely subordinate role implied by their status. They refused. Fueling the Gilded Age shows how disorder in the coal industry disrupted the strategic plans of the railroads. It does so by expertly intertwining the history of two industries-railroads and coal mining-that historians have generally examined from separate vantage points. It shows the surprising connections between railroad management and miner organizing; railroad freight rate structure and coal mine operations; railroad strategy and strictly local legal precedents. It combines social, economic, and institutional approaches to explain the Gilded Age from the perspective of the relative losers of history rather than the winners. It beckons readers to examine the still-unresolved nature of America’s national conundrum: how to reconcile the competing demands of national corporations, local businesses, and employees.

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In English.

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