Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book makes a significant contribution to the field of labor history, industrial archeology, and place-based history. Shackel unpacks the nuances of working-class labor, culture, and society while also addressing larger issues of how environmental devastation and unchecked capitalism have left long-lasting, if not irrevocable, scars on the landscape and the generations of people who have lived here. This is an outstanding resource for labor historians, labor archeologists, and anyone interested in a deep dive into the past and present of an American working-class community.”--Rachel Clare Donaldson, author of
“I Hear America Singing”: Folk Music and National IdentityTable of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Structural Violence in the Anthracite
Chapter 2. Coal and People
Chapter 3. Living in the Anthracite
Chapter 4. The Duplan Silk Mill and the Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Chapter 5. Food Insecurities in the Anthracite
Chapter 6. The Toxic Anthracite Environment
Chapter 7. Traditions, Traditional Medicines, and Powwowers
Chapter 8. Remembering the Anthracite
Chapter 9. The Making of Contemporary Northeastern Pennsylvania and the City of Hazleton
Chapter 10. Some Challenges Facing a Deindustrialized Community
Conclusion
References
Index
