A Legacy of Coal: The Coal Company Towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Mulrooney MM and National Park Service. 1989. A Legacy of Coal: The Coal Company Towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, America's Industrial Heritage Project. In addition to establishing the characteristics of Pennsylvania's bituminous coal towns, this report also addresses how the built environment in these coal towns reflected the historic relationship between management and labor in the bituminous coal industry. Evidence shows that the actual size, form, and placement of miners· housing manifested employers' attitudes towards certain ethnic groups and occupational levels. This theme recurs throughout the volume, but is the particular focus of chapters 6 and 7. For this reason, the last two chapters are more analytic than descriptive.