Book ID: CBB001180840

Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic communities and economic change, 1840--1940 (2002)

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Fones-Wolf, Ken (Editor)
Lewis, Ronald L. (Editor)


University of West Virginia Press


Publication Date: 2002
Edition Details: 1st edition
Physical Details: xviii + 325 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Description Contents: Paddy vs. Paddy: Labor unrest and provincial identities along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1849-1851 / Matthew Mason -- Caught between revolutions: Wheeling Germans in the Civil War era / Ken Fones-Wolf -- Swiss immigration to West Virginia, 1864-1884: A case study / Elizabeth Cometti -- From shtetl to coalfield: The migration of East European Jews to southern West Virginia / Deborah R. Weiner -- Craft, ethnicity, and identity: Belgian glassworkers in West Virginia, 1898-1940 / Ken Fones-Wolf -- Black migration to southern West Virginia / Joe William Trotter Jr. -- 'Here come the boomer 'talys': Italian immigrants and industrial conflict in the Upper Kanawha Valley, 1903-1917 / Frederick A. Barkey -- Uneven Americanization: Italian immigration to Marion county, 1900-1925 / William B. Klaus -- Wheeling iron and the Welsh: A geographical reading of Life in the iron mills / Anne Kelly Knowles -- Strange tongues: West Virginia and immigrant labor to 1920 / Kenneth R. Bailey -- Americanizing immigrant coal miners in northern West Virginia: Monongalia county between the world wars / Ronald L. Lewis -- West Virginia rubber workers in Akron / Susan Johnson. (From WorldCat)


Includes Chapters

Chapter Knowles, Anne Kelly (2002) Wheeling iron and the Welsh: A geographical reading of “Life in the iron mills”. In: Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic communities and economic change, 1840--1940 (p. 216). unapi

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Andrés, Benny J.
Karady, Viktor
Yarnell, Damon A.
Thompson, Andrew S
Quirke, Carol
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Ethnicity
Labor and laborers
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