St. Clair, a Nineteenth-century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-prone IndustryCornell University Press, 1988 - 519 pagina's Chronicles the rise and fall of a Pennsylvanian coal town, the center of violent confrontations between labor and capital. |
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