Wheeling's Polonia : reconstructing Polish community in a West Virginia steel town /
William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in t...
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| Language: | English |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | West Virginia and Appalachia.
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Table of Contents:
- "Wheeling Might Appropriately Be Called a Polish City": A Local Look at the Polish Migration, 1870-
- "There Has Always Been a Tough Element in That Section": Work, Culture, and Society in South Wheeling and Benwood
- The Heart of the Community: Polish Catholics at St. Ladislaus Parish, 1890-
- Finding a Good Job and a Good Union for Polonia: Polish Workers within Wheeling's Labor Movement, 1890-
- Proving Their Loyalty: Wheeling's Polish Immigrants during World War I
- Struggling for Economic Security: Polonia during the 1919 Steel Strike and the Roaring Twenties
- Polonia Adapts to the "New Era" of the 1920s
- Moonshiners and Bootleggers: New Immigrants and the Selective Enforcement of Prohibition in Wheeling
- Polonia in the Great Depression and the Rise of the CIO at Wheeling Steel.