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Building a Working Class Archaeology

The Colorado Coal Field War Project

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Industrial Archaeology

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 13902-6000

    Randall H. McGuire & Paul Reckner

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  1. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Eleanor Conlin Casella

  2. Graduate School of Archaeology, ARCUS, Sheffield, UK

    James Symonds (Director) (Director)

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McGuire, R.H., Reckner, P. (2005). Building a Working Class Archaeology. In: Casella, E.C., Symonds, J. (eds) Industrial Archaeology. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22831-4_11

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