Transnational West Virginia : Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940.

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

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