Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields

In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices, the miners' own views about their ever-evolving situation, and relationships between miners and mining companies -- undercutting the stereotypical picture of the rebellious miner.

Author: Barry P. Michrina
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 11/19/2004
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780813191041

About the Author

Barry P. Michrina, professor of anthropology at Colorado Mesa University, is the author of Person to Person: Fieldwork, Dialogue, and the Hermeneutic Method.

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