Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country
by
Andrew B. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they...