Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Culture, Labor, History) by Andrew B. Arnold
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0814764983 | 287 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive.