Labor in America

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Coal Mining Industry

• Eighth grade trip to Anthracite Museum - Lackawanna Coal Mine
• Anthracite Museum Homepage
• Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania
• McIntyre, Pennsylvania, The Everyday Life of a Coal Mining Company Town: 1910-1947 (this is a terrific site for primary sources)
• Eckley Miners' Village (Administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ; created by the gifted class of Hazle Elementary School and select students from Saint John's School)
• Centralia Pennsylvania Photography: Underground Mine Fires Burning since 1962 in Central PA
• Coal Mining History Resource Center
• What Coal Miners Do (from United Mine Workers of America)
• Pioneer Tunnel: Coal Mine & Steam Train
• District 1 - Coal Mine Safety and Health: History of Anthracite Coal Mining (from the U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration)
• Pennsylvania Coal Mine History (by David Kuchta)
• Coal Mining History (by Bill Riley)
• Anthracite Coal Delivery: Chervenitski Coal
• Coal Mining (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• Kentucky Coal Heritage
• Southeastern Ohio Coal Industry and History
• Songs From the Mines
• Pictures of Miners (from Picture History)
• Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago Old Ben #17
• Wilkes-Barre, PA Baltimore Tunnel Coal Mine Disaster, June 1919
• Pennsylvania Coal Mining Industry
• Philadelphia & Readind Coal and iron Company Records, 1866-1927
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• Who is Who in the Coal Mining Industry from Coal Mine Workers and their Industry: An Industrial Handbook (Prepared by the Educational Bureau of the I.W.W. for Coal-Mine Workers' Union 220, I.W.W )
• Senator Hanna Tries to Avert Coal Strike; He Cables J.P. Morgan for Concessions to Anthracite Miners (New York Times May 8, 1902)
• George's Creek Mining

Labor

• Samuel Gompers (from Learn.co.uk)
• Faces of Protest: Samuel Gompers (from PBS)
• Seattle General Strike Project (1919- the first citywide strike to be proclaimed as a general strike)
• Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers (from the Smithsonian)
• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 (from the Library of Congress)
• The Triangle Factory Fire: March 25, 1911
• The Pullman Strike (from Spartacus Educational)
• Alice Hamilton (biographical information and photograph from Learn.co.uk)

Child Labor

• Child Labor(Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
• The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912
• Child Labor in the United States: The Campaign to End Child Labor
• Child Labor Cartoons

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