Wealth, Waste, and Alienation

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Connellsville was a major source of coke, a vital material in industrial processes, above all in steel manufacture, producing forty-seven percent of America's supply in 1913. But by the 1920s what had seemed to be a gold mine turned into a devastating economic, environmental, and social loss.In Wealth, Waste and Alienation, Warren draws from primary source material -- including the minutes and letters of the Carnegie Steel Company, the United States Steel Corporation, and the archives of Henry Clay Frick -- to explain the birth, growth, decline, and death of the Connellsville coke industry. Its rich natural resources produced wealth for individuals, companies, and some communities, but as Warren shows, there was also social alienation, waste, and devastation of the natural environment.