Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Contents

• A view of coal mining in 1877
• How important was coal mining to the American economy?
• The work of a coal miner in the 1870s
• The special hazards of coal mining
• How did machines change the work of a coal miner?
• How did Stephen Crane describe the life of a coal miner in 1894?
• A description of the life of a miner in 1902
• How did reformers use the coal industry to persuade Americans to support measures to abolish child labor?
• An Anthracite Miner's Story (1902)
• Among the Coal Miners (an account from Illinois in 1902)
• Anthracite Coal Mines and Mining (a description from 1902)
• The Boys in the Breakers (1904)
  
• Troubles in the coke regions
• The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
  • The The Anthracite Coal Strike
  • A 1904 description of anthracite coal communities
  • The Molly Maguires