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Author : Richard J. Clyne
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Coal People written by Richard J. Clyne and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area of focus for this study is the coal towns in Las Animas and Huerfano counties.
Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862630
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book To Save the Land and People written by Chad Montrie and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement that engaged in acts of civil disobedience and industrial sabotage. Both comprehensive and comparative, To Save the Land and People chronicles the story of surface mining opposition in the whole region, from Pennsylvania to Alabama. Though many accounts of environmental activism focus on middle-class suburbanites and emphasize national events, the campaign to abolish strip mining was primarily a movement of farmers and working people, originating at the local and state levels. Its history underscores the significant role of common people and grassroots efforts in the American environmental movement. This book also contributes to a long-running debate about American values by revealing how veneration for small, private properties has shaped the political consciousness of strip mining opponents.
Author : Meredith Fletcher
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
ISBN 13 : 9780522849783
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Digging People Up for Coal written by Meredith Fletcher and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yallourn was designed in the 1920s as a garden town, laid out on “hygienic and aesthetic principles” embodying “the most modern practice.” It became a thriving and close-knit community that was home to several generations of State Electricity Commission (SEC) workers and their families. By the 1960s, however, it was being portrayed as outmoded, “unattractive to modern housewives,” decrepit, and obsolete. The town was no longer described as a model town but as an area that had to be cleared. This book brings to life the impact of the town and its demise on the individuals who lived there and on the community they created—a community that still exists vividly in memory and imagination.
Author : Richard J. Clyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Coal People written by Richard J. Clyne and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Cooke
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1496446496
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Canary in the Coal Mine written by William Cooke and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future--and exposed a national health crisis. When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America. Confronted with Austin's hidden secrets, Dr. Cooke decided he had to do something about them. In taking up the fight for Austin's people, however, he would have to battle some unanticipated foes: prejudice, political resistance, an entrenched bureaucracy--and the dark despair that threatened to overwhelm his own soul. Canary in the Coal Mine is a gripping account of the transformation of a man and his adopted community, a compelling and ultimately hopeful read in the vein of Hillbilly Elegy, Dreamland, and Educated.
Author : Chris Hamby
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316299499
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Soul Full of Coal Dust written by Chris Hamby and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to virtually eradicate black lung disease and provide fair compensation to coal miners stricken with the illness. Today, however, both promises remain unfulfilled. Levels of disease have surged, the old scourge has taken an aggressive new form, and ailing miners and widows have been left behind by a dizzying legal system, denied even modest payments and medical care. In this devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby traces the unforgettable story of how these trends converge in the lives of two men: Gary Fox, a black lung-stricken West Virginia coal miner determined to raise his family from poverty, and John Cline, an idealistic carpenter and rural medical clinic worker who becomes a lawyer in his fifties. Opposing them are the lawyers at the coal industry’s go-to law firm; well-credentialed doctors who often weigh in for the defense, including a group of radiologists at Johns Hopkins; and Gary’s former employer, Massey Energy, the region’s largest coal company, run by a cantankerous CEO often portrayed in the media as a dark lord of the coalfields. On the line in Gary and John’s longshot legal battle are fundamental principles of fairness and justice, with consequences for miners and their loved ones throughout the nation. Taking readers inside courtrooms, hospitals, homes tucked in Appalachian hollows, and dusty mine tunnels, Hamby exposes how coal companies have not only continually flouted a law meant to protect miners from deadly amounts of dust but also enlisted well-credentialed doctors and lawyers to help systematically deny much-needed benefits to miners. The result is a legal and medical thriller that brilliantly illuminates how a band of laborers — aided by a small group of lawyers, doctors and lay advocates, often working out of their homes or in rural clinics and tiny offices – challenged one of the world's most powerful forces, Big Coal, and won. A deeply troubling yet ultimately triumphant work, Soul Full of Coal Dust is a necessary and timely book about injustice and resistance.
Author : Herman R. Lantz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258803407
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book People of Coal Town written by Herman R. Lantz and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman R. Lantz
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331829334
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (293 download)
Download or read book People of Coal Town (Classic Reprint) written by Herman R. Lantz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from People of Coal Town The need for basic research in the natural sciences has long been recognized. Of equal significance if social science is to develop is the need for basic research into the personal and social processes of human existence. This need is recognized by social scientists and its recognition is manifest in their orientation and conception of social research. The study reported here is in line with this develop ment; in the pages to follow a description and an analysis of life, past and present, in a coal-mining community will be offered. The particular form of this analysis, the community study, repre sents a type of research which has had. Considerable appeal both for the professional social scientist and for the layman. For the professional the possibilities of the richness afforded by seeing life in a total setting are intriguing. For the layman these studies pos sess a vitality and zest which make their characters come to life and unfold a quality which is moving and real. Further, the community study, quite apart from any professional merits, is a potent way of communicating basic social science insights, and it takes what may normally be for the untrained observer a dull scheme of jargon and integrates this into a dynamic system providing insights into living people. Throughout the development of this study we have been conscious of the potentialities for the fullest realization of our data and we have tried to communicate our findings in a way which would be meaningful to our colleagues as well as to the layman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John R. Leifchild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Our Coal and Our Coal-pits written by John R. Leifchild and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Hansell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book After Coal written by Tom Hansell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when fossil fuels run out? How do communities and cultures survive? Central Appalachia and south Wales were built to extract coal, and faced with coal's decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, labor unrest, and out-migration. After Coal focuses on coalfield residents who chose not to leave, but instead remained in their communities and worked to build a diverse and sustainable economy. It tells the story of four decades of exchange between two mining communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and profiles individuals and organizations that are undertaking the critical work of regeneration. The stories in this book are told through interviews and photographs collected during the making of After Coal, a documentary film produced by the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University and directed by Tom Hansell. Considering resonances between Appalachia and Wales in the realms of labor, environment, and movements for social justice, the book approaches the transition from coal as an opportunity for marginalized people around the world to work toward safer and more egalitarian futures.
Author : Jeanne Marie Laskas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160056X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Hidden America written by Jeanne Marie Laskas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah.com “Must-Read Book” Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals “enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant”* profiles of America's working class—the forgotten men and women who make our country run. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football. “Jeanne Marie Laskas is a reporting and writing powerhouse. She doesn’t just interview the people who dig our coal and extract our oil, she goes deep into the mines and tundra with them. With beauty, wit, curiosity, and grace, she finds the hidden soul of America. Hidden America is essential reading.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author : United States. President's Commission on Coal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Second Public Hearing of the President's Commission on Coal written by United States. President's Commission on Coal and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Special Subcommittee on Coal Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Special Subcommittee on Coal Research and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Mines and Mining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book To Create a Bituminous Coal Commission written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Mines and Mining and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Conditions in the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley Young Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870124112
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Coal and People written by Shirley Young Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, techniques, problems, pro & con. Suitable for orientation or general interest. A product of coal mining research, composed in simple language. Combined with the assistance of representatives of both labor & management, government sources, educators & individuals. Includes 92 photographs of machines, locations & people. Reprinted, 1994.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stabilization of Bituminous Coal Mining Industry written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
