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One of the central questions facing scholars of Appalachia concerns how a region so rich in natural resources could end up a symbol of poverty. Typical culprits include absentee landowners, reactionary coal operators, stubborn mountaineers, and greedy politicians. In a deft combination of labor and business history, Glass Towns complicates these answers by examining the glass industry s potential to improve West Virginia s political economy by establishing a base of value-added manufacturing to complement the state s abundance of coal, oil, timber, and natural gas. Through case studies of glass production hubs in Clarksburg, Moundsville, and Fairmont (producing window, tableware, and bottle glass, respectively), Ken Fones-Wolf looks closely at the impact of industry on local populations and immigrant craftsmen. He also examines patterns of global industrial restructuring, the ways workers reshaped workplace culture and political action, and employer strategies for responding to global competition, unreliable markets, and growing labor costs at the end of the nineteenth century. "

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  • Author : Ken Fones-Wolf
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Genre : Business & Economics
  • Total Pages : 274 pages
  • ISBN : 0252073711
  • PDF File Size : 7,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Glass Towns

Glass Towns
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • File Size : 36,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 June 2024
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One of the central questions facing scholars of Appalachia concerns how a region so rich in natural resources could end up a symbol of poverty. Typical culprits include absentee landowners,

More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • File Size : 25,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 June 1963
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From Colonial days to the early 1900s, iron forges, glass plants, lumber and paper mills flourished in the New Jersey of the Pine Barrens, in old Burlington, Gloucester and Salem

Stained Glass Tours in France

Stained Glass Tours in France
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • File Size : 45,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 August 2020
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Reproduction of the original: Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

Glass Town

Glass Town
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • File Size : 46,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 03 March 2020
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A graphic novel about the Brontë siblings and their inventive childhood from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth. NPR Best Book of 2020 Glass Town

Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • File Size : 22,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 June 1983
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Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny

Medieval Towns

Medieval Towns
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • File Size : 47,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 2003
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"Though the book is primarily about medieval towns in Britain, many parallels are drawn with contemporary towns and cities all over Europe, from Ireland to Russia and from Scandinavia to

Industry in Towns

Industry in Towns
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 32,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 05 September 2017
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Originally published in 1952. This book addresses one of the most pressing problems in town planning – the proper place of industry in our towns. The author writes from the standpoint of