St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience With A Disaster-Prone Industry
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A landmark work of social and industrial history, St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience With A Disaster-Prone Industry chronicles the turbulent life of a Pennsylvania anthracite mining community during the height of America's industrial revolution. Anthony F. C. Wallace presents a richly detailed portrait of St. Clair, Pennsylvania, examining how the relentless demands of coal production shaped the lives, labor, and fates of its working-class residents. With the precision of an anthropologist and the narrative drive of a storyteller, Wallace uncovers the systemic failures — technological, economic, and human — that made the coal industry one of the most dangerous enterprises of the era, leaving a trail of disasters, strikes, and social upheaval in its wake. The work argues that the catastrophes plaguing St. Clair were not random misfortunes but the predictable consequences of reckless capitalism, inadequate safety standards, and the exploitation of immigrant labor. Scholarly yet deeply humane in tone, this meticulously researched account stands as a definitive study of how industrialization extracted its brutal toll on ordinary American communities.
Author: Anthony F. C. Wallace
Format: Paperback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark work of social and industrial history, St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience With A Disaster-Prone Industry chronicles the turbulent life of a Pennsylvania anthracite mining community during the height of America's industrial revolution. Anthony F. C. Wallace presents a richly detailed portrait of St. Clair, Pennsylvania, examining how the relentless demands of coal production shaped the lives, labor, and fates of its working-class residents. With the precision of an anthropologist and the narrative drive of a storyteller, Wallace uncovers the systemic failures — technological, economic, and human — that made the coal industry one of the most dangerous enterprises of the era, leaving a trail of disasters, strikes, and social upheaval in its wake. The work argues that the catastrophes plaguing St. Clair were not random misfortunes but the predictable consequences of reckless capitalism, inadequate safety standards, and the exploitation of immigrant labor. Scholarly yet deeply humane in tone, this meticulously researched account stands as a definitive study of how industrialization extracted its brutal toll on ordinary American communities.