Colliers across the Sea
Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924 (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780252025112
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Mining industry; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Work & labour; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Coal Mining; Employment Of Special Groups; Business & Economics; History - U.S.; History: American; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Minority Studies - General; United States - General; Business & Economics / Labor; Labor; Mining; 19th century; Coal miners; History; Middle West; Scotland; Social classes
First sentence: In the early years of the nineteenth century, Wishaw and Larkhall typified dozens of small Lanarkshire communities that were undergoing the first phases of coal mine development.