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By Barry P. Minchrina,Barry P. Michrina

In Pennsylvania Mining households, Barry P. Michrina bargains a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their reaction to fiscal oppression. He follows them from the nice coal strike of 1927 via day-by-day threats of harm and demise within the mines to the departure of kids and grandchildren because the has declined. Drawing on various first-hand interviews, in addition to huge archival learn, he analyzes the switch in paintings practices, the miners' personal perspectives approximately their ever-evolving state of affairs, and relationships among miners and mining businesses -- undercutting the stereotypical photograph of the rebellious miner.

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