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Title: Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ISBN: 0-395-97914-5 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: growing up (or not) in coal country
Comment: i've been researching the history of the anthracite region and specifically the experience of miners and their families, and this was one of the most useful books i've seen. by detailing the different jobs the boys in the mines did, bartoletti also manages to describe how a mine worked in ways that other books on mining don't really explain. it covers the whole process by telling stories about the different jobs the kids did.
the photos too are wonderful. you get a real sense of how much these kids are both children and yet so remarkably grown up, just from the looks in their eyes.
the stories about them range from terrifically sad (i cried a few times) to heartwarming and sweet. the book doesn't come off as bombast or pure sentiment, but keeps a very journalistic view of these kids & their reality.
i highly recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Glimpses from a bygone era
Comment: This is a fascinating book about the life and times of the coal miners in Pennsylvania when "coal was king" and child labor laws were things of the future. The photographs, especially those involving children, are haunting; and Susan Bartoletti's text is lucid and poignant. Impressions of the "breaker boys", "nippers", "spraggers", and the "fire boss" lingered in my mind long after I finished reading this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Growing Up in Coal Country
Comment: A very interesting little book for anyone who grew up in or has an interest in the history of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region. The stories in this book apply to so many thousands of families that lived there and tried so hard to make a living under the harshest of conditions. Life was anything but easy for the anthracite miner and his family - no medical insurance (but then medical care was almost non-existent), no paid holidays, just dirty and dangerous work. The book is brief, reads easy but generally does a good job of telling it like it was back then and in that place.
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Title: The Coal King's Slaves by William G. Williams ISBN: 1572493194 Publisher: Burd Street Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Kids at Work : Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman, Lewis Hine ISBN: 0395797268 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Kids On Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ISBN: 0618369236 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Tales of the Mine Country by Eric McKeever ISBN: 0964390507 Publisher: Eric McKeever Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny, Kevin Kenney ISBN: 0195116313 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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