Not only were workers paid low wages for extremely long hours under dangerous and sometimes deadly working conditions. but the coal companies maintained control over virtually every aspect of the miners lives. They lived in companyowned houses. were forced to buy from companyowned stores. and were treated by company doctors. The coal mined in northeastern Pennsylvania was the energy source for the industrial revolution in America. Jobs in the coal mining industry gave the newly arrived immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe of the late 1800s a chance to make better lives for themselves and their children. Immigrants from Italy. Hungary. Poland. and other countries faced enormous prejudices and difficulties in assimilating into American culture and becoming accepted by the nativeborn population.
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