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Transnational West Virginia: ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940
Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis-
Frontmatter
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List of Tables (page vii)
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Introduction: Networks Large and Small (page ix)
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Section I: Antebellum Roots
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1. "Paddy vs. Paddy: Labor Unrest and Provincial Identities along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1849-1851" (Matthew Mason, page 03)
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2. "Caught between Revolutions: Wheeling Germans in the Civil War Era" (Ken Fones-Wolf, page 19)
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Section II: Niche Communities
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3. "Swiss Immigration to West Virginia, 1864-1884: A Case Study" (Elizabeth Cometti, page 51)
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4. "From Shtetl to Coalfield: The Migration of East European Jews to Southern West Virginia" (Deborah R. Weiner, page 73)
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5. "Craft, Ethnicity, and Identity: Belgian Glassworkers in West Virginia, 1898-1940" (Ken Fones-Wolf, page 113)
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Section III: Immigrant Coal Miners
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6. "Black Migration to Southern West Virginia" (Joe William Trotter Jr., page 137)
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7. " 'Here Come the Boomer 'Talys': Italian Immigrants and Industrial Conflict in the Upper Kanawha Valley, 1903-1917" (Frederick A. Barkey, page 161)
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8. "Uneven Americanization: Italian Immigration to Marion County, 1900-1925" (William B. Klaus, page 191)
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Section IV: Representations of Ethnic Work Communities
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9. "Wheeling Iron and the Welsh: A Geographical Reading of Life in the Iron Mills" (Anne Kelly Knowles, page 217)
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10. "Strange Tongues: West Virginia and Immigrant Labor to 1920" (Kenneth R. Bailey, page 243)
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11. "Americanizing Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern West Virginia: Monongalia County between the World Wars" (Ronald L. Lewis, page 261)
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Epilogue: Leaving West Virginia
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12. "West Virginia Rubber Workers in Akron" (Susan Johnson, page 299)
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About the Contributors (page 317)
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Index (page 319)
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Published: 2003
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
- 9780937058763 (paper)
- 9780937058671 (hardcover)