Labor & working lives
Explore this record →Gunfire at the Depots
The unrest of July 1877 moved from a workers’ meeting to Shamokin’s railroad depots, leaving conflicting accounts in its wake.
Shamokin Stories collection
Stories
Reviewed accounts of Shamokin’s people, industries, neighborhoods, institutions, and public life.
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When the Coal Strike Reached the Lights
During the 1900 strike, a coal shortage connected mine labor with the electric service used around town.
Labor & working livesExplore this record →Women at Work in Turn-of-the-Century Shamokin
Teachers, dressmakers, milliners, saleswomen, proprietors, and other named workers make women's paid and independent work visible in Shamokin's reviewed volumes, even when the record remains incomplete.