The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite Mining Town
by
Janet MacGaffey
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great...