Wheeling's Polonia
| Titel: | Wheeling's Polonia : reconstructing Polish community in a West Virginia steel town / William Hal Gorby |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2020] |
| Umfang: | xv,331 Seiten : Karten, Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9781949199406 ; 9781949199390 ; 9781949199413 |
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- List of Illustrations
- p. vii
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Abbreviations
- p. xv
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- "Wheeling Might Appropriately Be Called a Polish City": A Local Look at the Polish Migration, 1870-1915
- p. 17
- 2
- "There Has Always Been a Tough Element in That Section": Work, Culture, and Society in South Wheeling and Benwood
- p. 41
- 3
- The Heart of the Community: Polish Catholics at St. Ladislaus Parish, 1890-1917
- p. 70
- 4
- Finding a Good Job and a Good Union for Polonia: Polish Workers within Wheeling's Labor Movement, 1890-1915
- p. 97
- 5
- Proving Their Loyalty: Wheeling's Polish Immigrants during World War I
- p. 124
- 6
- Struggling for Economic Security: Polonia during the 1919 Steel Strike and the Roaring Twenties
- p. 147
- 7
- Polonia Adapts to the "New Era" of the 1920s
- p. 171
- 8
- Moonshiners and Bootleggers: New Immigrants and the Selective Enforcement of Prohibition in Wheeling
- p. 197
- 9
- Polonia in the Great Depression and the Rise of the CIO at Wheeling Steel
- p. 217
- Conclusion
- p. 239
- Notes
- p. 245
- Bibliography
- p. 305
- Index
- p. 321
