Wheeling's Polonia
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-949199-40-6 (ISBN)
Wheeling was a centre of West Virginia's labour movement, and Polish immigrants became a crucial element within the city's active working-class culture. Arriving at what was also the centre of the state's Roman Catholic Diocese, Poles built religious and fraternal institutions to support new arrivals and to seek solace in times of economic strain and family hardship. The city's history of crime and organised vice also affected new immigrants, who often lived in neighbourhoods targeted for selective enforcement of Prohibition.
At once a deeply textured evocation of the city's ethnic institutions and an engagement with large questions about belonging, change and justice, Wheeling's Polonia us an inspiring account of a diverse working-class culture and the immigrants who built it.
William Hal Gorby is a teaching assistant professor of history and director of undergraduate advising at West Virginia University. He teaches courses on West Virginian, Appalachian, and American immigration history. He also consulted on the research and script editing for the Emmy-nominated PBS American Experience documentary The Mine Wars.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Wheeling Might Appropriately Be Called a Polish City": A Local Look at the Polish Migration, 1870–1915
2. "There Has Always Been a Tough Element in That Section": Work, Culture, and Society in South Wheeling and Benwood
3. The Heart of the Community: Polish Catholics at St. Ladislaus Parish, 1890–1917
4. Finding a Good Job and a Good Union for Polonia: Polish Workers within Wheeling's Labor Movement, 1890–1915
5. Proving Their Loyalty: Wheeling's Polish Immigrants during World War I
6. Struggling for Economic Security: Polonia during the 1919 Steel Strike and the Roaring Twenties
7. Polonia Adapts to the "New Era" of the 1920s
8. Moonshiners and Bootleggers: New Immigrants and the Selective Enforcement of Prohibition in Wheeling
9. Polonia in the Great Depression and the Rise of the CIO at Wheeling Steel
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.06.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | West Virginia & Appalachia Series |
Zusatzinfo | 12 black & white images, 2 maps |
Verlagsort | Morganstown |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 149 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 489 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-949199-40-1 / 1949199401 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-949199-40-6 / 9781949199406 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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