Keystone of democracy
Subtitle: a history of Pennsylvania workers
By: Howard Harris, editor ; Perry K. Blatz, associate editor ; Ronald L. Fillippeli ... [et al.].
Contributors: Harris, Howard.; Blatz, Perry K.; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Harrisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Labor movement -- Pennsylvania -- History.; Working class -- Pennsylvania -- History.; Pennsylvania -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial work, colonial workers / Ronald L. Filippelli; title: Printing / Ronald L. Filippelli; title: An industrial giant takes shape, 1800-1872 / Ken Fones-Wolf; title: The battle of Clearfield Creek / Howard Harris; title: Disaster at Avondale / Howard Harris; title: Titanic struggles, 1873-1916 / Perry K. Blatz; title: Terence V. Powderly / Perry K. Blatz; title: The Lattimer massacre / Kenneth C. Wolensky; title: Rinaldo Cappellini, the Knox Mine Disaster and the decline of the anthracite coal industry / Perry K. Blatz and Robert P. Wolensky; title: Shaping a new labor movement, 1917-1941 / Peter Gottlieb; title: James Hudson Maurer / John C. Brennan; title: Thomas Kennedy, "the little giant of the anthracite" / Maier B. Fox; title: Van Amberg Bittner, 1885-1949 / Russell Gibbons; title: Glory days, 1941-1969 / Mark McColloch; title: The postwar strike wave: the case of the plate glass workers / Richard O'Connor; title: Philip Murray: Pennsylvania's mid-century labor giant / Louis Pappalardo; title: Gaston Le Blanc: union activist / Paul LeBlanc; title: Amy Ballinger: Pittsburgh's first lady of labor / Dale Newman; title: Min Matheson and the Wyoming Valley District of the ILGWU / Kenneth C. and Robert P. Wolensky; title: Pittsburgh teachers and collective bargaining / John Tarka; title: Hard times and new hopes, 1970-1997 / Howard Harris; title: Act 195 / Harry Boyer; title: Lock Haven's last Piper airplane / Howard Harris; title: Conflict and compromise in the western Pennsylvania construction industry / Howard Harris.