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Stories from the mines how immigrant miners changed America
Title
Stories from the mines [electronic resource (video)] : how immigrant miners changed America / United Studios of America.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2005], c2001.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sd., col., digital.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 12, 2005.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
The first decades of the 20th century saw the rise of America to superpower status-an ascendancy fueled in large measure by the social and industrial impact of anthracite coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania. This meticulously researched program uses location footage, archival film, period photos, dramatizations, and academic commentary to examine the coming-of-age of American labor. The agitation and violent suppression that so characterized the times are vividly captured, as are the era's larger-than-life personalities. Precedents including wage and child labor laws and the right to collective bargaining are set against the stark backdrop of immigrant miners savagely exploited by laissez-faire industrialists.
Variant and related titles
How immigrant miners changed America
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Other formats
Original produced: United Studios of America , 2001
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Contents
American Industry Rises on Coal (3:14)
Violence in Coal Mining's Golden Age (3:50)
Massacre and Corruption at Lattimer (3:21)
Economic Power in Transporting Coal (4:39)
Rights of Immigrant Coal Miners (4:16)
Unionism and Mother Jones (3:33)
United Mine Workers of America: 1890 (4:15)
Child Labor in Coal Mines (3:24)
Industrial War: Strike of 1902 (5:20)
Industrial War: Arbitration (2:40)
Coal Strike Commission: Labor (5:05)
Coal Strike Commission: Operators (4:26)
Commission's Findings (4:35)
Videorecording number
30929 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
United Studios of America.
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