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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

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