

Erie County Historical Society (2005)Ī Trooper’s Narrative of Service in the Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 (1903) Bretz: Photographer in the Mines (1997)ĭemocratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925 (1994)Īnthracite People: Families, Unions and Work, 1900-1940 (1983)Ĭoalseam: Poems from the Anthracite Region (1993)Īnthracite Lads: A True Story of the Fabled Molly Maguires. The Anthracite Railroads: A Study in American Railroad Enterprise (1927) Population Change and Social Continuity: Ten Years in a Coal TownĬoal Cracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835-1935 (2003)Ī Coal Miner’s Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska (2000) If you know of any that we missed, contact us or let us know in a comment.įrom the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union, 1869-1897

In the spirit of Zinn, we offer a list of books about the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Region. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”

If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday.
