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The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region 1835-1910 Hardcover - 1969

by Katherine A. Harvey

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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969 Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light suntoning to spine; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; miscut page corner on page 114. DJ: Good; Not Price Clipped (138 Shillings); suntoning to spine; moisture spot on DJ at tail; light rubbing to panels. Gray cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 488 pp 8vo. This book is a historical study of the working conditions and living conditions of coal miners in the coal mining region of Maryland between 1835 and 1910. It covers national origins, housing, family budgets, leisure activities, child labor, the evolution of labor relations, the failure of trade union development, etc., and comments on labor legislation relating to labor inspection. Bibliography pp. 464 to 477, map and statistical tables. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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  • Title The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region 1835-1910
  • Author Katherine A. Harvey
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
  • Date 1969
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 016896

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