A Bibliography of Labor History in Pennsylvania
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A Bibliography of Labor History in Pennsylvania Compiled and edited by Nathaniel J. Donato University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Labor History Society September, 2014 Table of Contents: African American Labor ................................................................................................................. 2 Coal ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Deindustrialization ........................................................................................................................ 10 Farming ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Industrialization ............................................................................................................................ 12 Iron ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Law and Politics ............................................................................................................................ 16 Life ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Lumber .......................................................................................................................................... 19 Oil ................................................................................................................................................. 20 Railroads and Locomotives........................................................................................................... 21 Steel............................................................................................................................................... 23 Strikes ........................................................................................................................................... 27 Textiles .......................................................................................................................................... 30 Unions ........................................................................................................................................... 33 Women’s Labor ............................................................................................................................ 35 Other ............................................................................................................................................. 36 1 African American Labor: Bezís-Selfa, John. “Slavery and the Disciplining of Free Labor in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic Iron Industry.” Pennsylvania History 64 (1997). 270-286. Bloom, John. “'The Farmers Didn't Particularly Care for Us': Oral Narrative and the Grass Roots Recovery of African American Migrant Farm Labor History in Central Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania History 78.4 (2011). 323-354. Bodnar, John E. “Peter C. Blackwell and the Negro Community of Steelton, 1880-1920.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 97.2 (1973). 199-209. Cole, Peter. Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (Working Class in American History). Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Dickerson, Dennis C. Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875– 1980. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Gottlieb, Peter. Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916–30. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Miller, Jacquelyn C. “The Wages of Blackness: African American Workers and the Meanings of Race during Philadelphia's 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129.4 (2005). 163-194. Obsorne, Christopher M. “Invisible Hands: Slaves, Bound Laborers, and the Development of Western Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania History 72.1 (2009). 77-99. Ryan, Francis. AFSCME's Philadelphia Story: Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. Trotter, Joe William Jr. River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Walker, Joseph E. “Negro Labor in the Charcoal Iron Industry of Southeastern Pennsylvania.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 93.4 (1969). 466-486. Wax, Darold D. “The Demand for Slave Labor in Colonial Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania History 34.4 (1967). 331-345. 2 Coal: Abrams, James, et. al. “Anthracite Mining Unionism and the UMW: An Oral History.” Pennsylvania History 58.4 (1991). 330-337. Aldrich, Mark. “The Perils of Mining Anthracite: Regulation, Technology and Safety, 1870- 1945.” Pennsylvania History 64.3 (1997). 361-383. Arnold, Andy. Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Aurand, Harold W. “Diversifying the Economy of the Anthracite Regions, 1880-1900. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 94.1 (1970). 54-61. Aurand, Harold W. “Early Mine Workers' Organizations in the Anthracite Region.” Pennsylvania History 58.4 (1991). 298-310. Aurand, Harold W. “Mine Safety and Social Control in the Anthracite Industry.” Pennsylvania History 52.4 (1985). 227-241. Aurand, Harold W. “The Anthracite Miner: An Occupational Analysis.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 104.4 (1990). 462-473. Aurand, Harold W. “The Anthracite Strike of 1887-1888.” Pennsylvania History 35.2 (1968). 169-185. Aurand, Harold. Coal Cracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835- 1935. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2003. Bartoletti, Susan C. Growing Up in Coal Country. Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1999. Beik, Mildred. The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Bertheaud, Michael A., and Howard M. Pollman. “Exploring the Pennsylvania Energy Trail of History.” Pennsylvania Heritage 35.3 (2009). 22-33. Berthoff, Rowland. “The Social Order of the Anthracite Region, 1825-1902.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 89.3 (1965). 261-291. Billinger, Robert D. Pennsylvania's Coal Industry. Gettysburg: The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1954. Black, Brian and Marcy Ladson. “The Legacy of Extraction: Reading Patterns and Ethics in Pennsylvania's Landscape of Energy.” Pennsylvania History 79.4 (2012). 377-394. 3 Blatz, Perry K. “Local Leadership and Local Militancy: The Nanticoke Strike of 1899 and the Roots of Unionization in the Northern Anthracite Field.” Pennsylvania History 58.4 (1991). 278- 297. Blatz, Perry K. Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Bodnar, John. Anthracite People: Families, Unions and Work, 1900–1940. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1983. Brisbin, Richard A., Jr. A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990. Morgantown: University of West Virginia Press, 2010. Coleman, John F. “Cambria County: Coming Full Circle.” Pennsylvania Heritage 12.1 (1986). 12-17. Cooper, Eileen M. “That Magnificent Fight for Unionism: The Somerset County Strike of 1922.” Pennsylvania Heritage 17.4 (1991). 12-17. Cornell, Robert J. The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1957. Currá, Thomas M. and Greg Matkosky. Stories from the Mines. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2007. Davies, Edward J. “Elite Migration and Urban Growth: The Rise of Wilkes-Barre in the Northern Anthracite Region, 1820-1880.” Pennsylvania History 45.4 (1978). 291-314. Davies, John. “Authority, Community, and Conflict: Rioting and Aftermath in a Late-Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Coal Town.” Pennsylvania History 66.3 (1999). 339-363. Davis, James F. “Dauphin County: Chocolates, Coal, and a Capital.” Pennsylvania Heritage 11.4 (1985). 16-25. DiCiccio, Carmen. Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1996. Dublin, Thomas. “Life After the Mines Closed.” Pennsylvania Heritage 25.2 (1999). 6-15. Dublin, Thomas. When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times. Ithaca: Cornell University Post, 1998. Filippelli, Ronald L. “Diary of a Strike: George Medrick and the Coal Strike of 1927 in Western Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania History 43.3 (1976). 4 Gowaskie, Joseph M. Folklorist of the Coal Fields: George Korson's Life and Work. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. Grant, Philip A. Jr. “The Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation and the Bituminous Coal Acts of 1935 and 1937.” Pennsylvania History 49.2 (1982). 121-131. Greed, Hardy. The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy. New York: Basic Books, 2010. Greene, Victor R. “A Study in Slavs, Strikes, and Unions: The Anthracite Strike of 1897.” Pennsylvania History 31.2 (1964). 199-215. Greene, Victor R. The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. Grinde, Donald A. Jr. “The Powder Trust and the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region.” Pennsylvania History 42.3 (1975). 206-219. Hanney, Joseph M. “Schuylkill County: Built on Coal.” Pennsylvania