{"product_id":"the-face-of-decline-the-pennsylvania-anthracite-region-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Dublin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWalter Licht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In \u003ci\u003eThe Face of Decline\u003c\/i\u003e, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Face of Decline\u003c\/i\u003e also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Dublin is Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of many books including \u003ci\u003eWhen the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTransforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Cornell, and \u003ci\u003eWomen at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community\u003c\/i\u003e in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Merle Curti Award. Walter Licht is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eWorking for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Prize; \u003ci\u003eWork Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890-1950\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGetting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eIndustrializing America: The Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 10 x 7.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757475332384,"sku":"9780801484735","price":68.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1e8f75cfc99661b1d59becdd7bcb0ca8.webp?v=1780103974","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-face-of-decline-the-pennsylvania-anthracite-region-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}