Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry (History)

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The southwestern Pennsylvania town of Connellsville lay in the course of a massive reserve of prime quality coal. Connellsville coal was once so soft and easily worked that one man and a boy could cut and load ten tons of it in ten hours.

This region became a major source of coke, a very important material in industrial processes, above all in steel manufacture, producing forty-seven percent of The usa`s supply in 1913. But by the 1920s, what had gave the impression to be a gold mine was once turning into a devastating economic, environmental and social loss.

In Wealth, Waste and Alienation, Kenneth Warren draws from primary source material, including the minutes and letters of the Carnegie Steel Company, the USA Steel Corporation, and the archives of Henry Clay Frick, to give an explanation for the birth, phenomenal growth, decline and death of the Connellsville coke industry.  Its rich natural resources produced wealth for individuals, companies, and a few communities, but as Warren shows, there was once also social alienation, waste, and devastation of the natural environment. The complicated structure of enterprise, capital, and labor which made this region flourish unwound almost as quickly as it arose, creating repercussions that are still reverberating in what’s left of Connellsville today, one of those postindustrial rural shell of its former productive glory.


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