It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read Pennsylvania Mining Families by Barry P. Michrina
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In Pennsylvania Mining Families, Barry P. Michrina offers a luminous portrait of Pennsylvania coal miners and their response to economic oppression. He follows them from the great coal strike of 1927 through daily threats of injury and death in the mines to the departure of children and grandchildren as the industry has declined. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews, as well as extensive archival research, he analyzes the change in work practices, the miners' own views about their ever-evolving situation, and relationships between miners and mining companies—undercutting the...
Pennsylvania Mining Families by Barry P. Michrina is 200 pages long, and a total of 50,000 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 33 minutes to read Pennsylvania Mining Families aloud.
Pennsylvania Mining Families is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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