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King Coal

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-01T21:43:50Z with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Coal explores the lives of coal miners in early 20th century America. The story follows a privileged student who takes a job as a miner to gain firsthand experience of harsh conditions and mistreatment of workers. The protagonist is shocked by what he discovers and becomes an advocate for the miners, leading them in their fight against the mine owners and the political system that supports them. Sinclair’s writing style is known for its vivid descriptions and its ability to bring to life the characters and their struggles. Like much of his work, King Coal is a fictitious account of real issues. The novel is based on the author’s research in Colorado during the coal strikes of 1913–14, and is considered a classic of the muckraking genre that exposed the social and economic problems of the time. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

King Coal

Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891852060
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book King Coal written by Stan Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When Coal Was King

Author : John Roderick Hinde
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774809368
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book When Coal Was King written by John Roderick Hinde and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island during the early twentieth century. The Ladysmith miners had a reputation for radicalism and militancy and engaged in bitter struggles for union recognition and economic justice, most notably during the Great Strike of 1912-14. This strike, one of the longest and most violent labour disputes in Canadian history, marked a watershed in the history of the town and the coal industry. When Coal Was King illuminates the origins of the 1912-14 strike by examining the development of the coal industry on Vancouver Island, the founding of Ladysmith, the experience of work and safety in the mines, the process of political and economic mobilization, and how these factors contributed to the development of identity and community. While the Vancouver Island coal industry and the strike have been the focus of a number of popular histories, this book goes beyond to emphasize the importance of class, ethnicity, gender, and community in creating the conditions for the emergence and mobilization of the working-class population. Informed by currend academic debates on the matter and within the discipline, this readable history takes into account extensive archival research, and will appeal to historians and others interested in the history of Vancouver Island.

The Rise and Fall of King Coal

Author : Nick Piggott
Publisher : Banovallum
ISBN 13 : 9781911658634
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of King Coal written by Nick Piggott and published by Banovallum. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep-mined coal is no longer produced in the United Kingdom - the last of the country's collieries was closed at the end of 2015, causing the sun to set on a vast industry that at one time boasted 3,000 mines and employed well over a million workers. The Rise and Fall of King Coal tells the fascinating story of coal... from its origins in prehistoric swamps to its early primitive mining methods and to its role as the mineral that fueled the Industrial Revolution and put the 'Great' into Britain. It explores the history and operation of the collieries and their railways, explains the location of the coalfields and examines the hazards, hardships, disputes and tragedies that were part of every miner's life. Finally, with Britain now possessing only a handful of opencast and tiny drift mines while still importing millions of tons of coal from overseas, the UK's energy policy is examined at a time when many Britons are worrying whether it is sufficiently fit for purpose.

King Coal

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1917 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Coal (1917) is to the mining world what Sinclair's "The Jungle" is to the meat-packing industry. Through protagonist Hal Warner, Sinclair reveals the abuses faced by immigrant mine workers in the coal fields of the western United States

Farewell, King Coal

Author : Anthony Seaton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1780465920
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Farewell, King Coal written by Anthony Seaton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing this account of the rise and decline of the coal industry and its effects on the health of the miners, of those who worked with coal products and of almost all of us who have breathed in the pollution from its combustion, Professor Seaton points to the often hidden adverse consequences of transformative technologies.

The Coal War

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Boulder : Colorado Associated University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coal War written by Upton Sinclair and published by Boulder : Colorado Associated University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a prominent coal magnate, Hal Warner is horrified by the dangerous working conditions, long hours, and starvation wages endured by the men who toil in his family's mines. He tries to rouse other members of his privileged class to a similar state of indignation, but soon faces a much more severe test of his progressivism. When a labor group organizes a massive strike and the mining companies respond with punishing brutality, Hal's commitment to the cause of reform becomes a matter of life and death.

Justus S. Stearns

Author : Michael W. Nagle
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814341276
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Justus S. Stearns written by Michael W. Nagle and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the turn of the twentieth century, “Pine King” Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty manufacturing businesses—making everything from finished lumber to kitchen utensils, game boards, and motors—as well as hotels, a railroad, and a power company. He was also an active member of the Republican Party who served one term as Michigan’s secretary of state and a philanthropist who gave a great deal of his wealth to causes in both Michigan and Kentucky. In Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845–1933, author Michael W. Nagle details Stearns's astounding range of accomplishments and explores the influence of both paternalism and Social Darwinism in his business practices. Nagle begins by addressing key events in the first few decades of Stearns’s life and his initial foray into the lumber industry. Subsequent chapters explore Stearns’s political career, his timber operations in Wisconsin, and his coal, lumber, and railroad operations in Kentucky and Tennessee. Nagle also details the ancillary businesses that Stearns founded or purchased in the early twentieth century, even as his Stearns Salt & Lumber Company served as the anchor of his Michigan holdings, while Stearns Coal & Lumber did the same for his operations in Kentucky. The final chapter offers an overview and analysis of Stearns’s lifetime of accomplishments, including his impact on the town of Ludington, Michigan, where he maintained a residence for over fifty years. Nagle makes extensive use of primary source material from several historical archives as well as contemporary newspaper accounts, court documents, company records, and other primary sources. American history scholars, as well as general readers interested in Michigan’s lumbering era and Kentucky’s mining history, will enjoy this biography of an exceptionally influential businessman.

Fighting King Coal

Author : Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034344
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Fighting King Coal written by Shannon Elizabeth Bell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the Case : Central Appalachia --Micro-Level Processes and Social Movement Participation -- The Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities -- Identity and Environmental Justice Movement Participation -- Cognitive Liberation and Coal Industry Ideology -- Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia -- Photovoice in Five Coalfield Communities -- Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist.

The Road to Blair Mountain

Author : Charles B. Keeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949199840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Blair Mountain written by Charles B. Keeney and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playbook on successful activism that will inspire countless others for generations to come." --Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest labor uprising in US history. Ninety years later, the site became embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield--sometimes dubbed "labor's Gettysburg"--from destruction by mountaintop removal mining. The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney--a historian and great-grandson of Frank Keeney--led a nine-year legal battle to secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry.

Metals, Energy and Sustainability

Author : Barry Golding
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319511750
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Metals, Energy and Sustainability written by Barry Golding and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal. The colourful chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and energy from fossil fuels is presented from earliest times until the present day. The difficult concept of human sustainability is examined in the context of continually decreasing real prices of energy and metals. This book integrates the latest findings on our historic use of technology to continually produce cheaper metals even though ore grades have been decreasing. Furthermore, it shows that the rate of technological improvement must increase if metals are to be produced even more cheaply in the future.

King Coal

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
ISBN 13 : 153128048X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Coal is based on the 1914 and 1915 coal strikes and follows Hal Warner, a rich man who wanted a look into commoners' lives. A fellow determined to find the truth for himself about conditions in the mines, runs away from home and adopts the alias "Joe Smith." After being turned away by one coal mine for fear of Hal being a union organizer, he gets a job in another coal mine operated by the General Fuel Company, or GFC. In the mines he befriends many of the workers, and realizes their misery and exploitation at the hands of the bosses. What he found there was abhorrent -- thus begins the tale of unionization and the advocacy workers' rights. Unionization, however, is easier spoken of than it is accomplished. It was a dangerous task -- for the leaders of the coal mines were hardened men, men who would not stop at petty threats and minor violence...

Big Coal

Author : Jeff Goodell
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547526628
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Big Coal written by Jeff Goodell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengeance. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is growing, driven by rising oil prices and calls for energy independence. Is coal the solution to America's energy problems? On close examination, the glowing promise of coal quickly turns to ash. Coal mining remains a deadly and environmentally destructive industry. Nearly forty percent of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year comes from coal-fired power plants. In the last two decades, air pollution from coal plants has killed more than half a million Americans. In this eye-opening call to action, Goodell explains the costs and consequences of America's addiction to coal and discusses how we can kick the habit.

King Coal's Levee

Author : John Scafe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book King Coal's Levee written by John Scafe and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shadow of the Mine

Author : Huw Beynon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839767987
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Mine written by Huw Beynon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN

King Coal

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536860269
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Coal: A NovelBy Upton Sinclair

The Coal King's Slaves

Author : William G. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572493193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Coal King's Slaves written by William G. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A father and his three sons face blackness, filth, hardships, and extreme danger inthe anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania while the woman of their home struggles to keep her family alive."--Page 4 of cover.