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Author : Lee Haynes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257124692
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Snapshot Memories: The Life and Times of a Miner's Kid written by Lee Haynes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Armstead
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331761
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Black Days, Black Dust written by Robert Armstead and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armistead retired from the coal mines in 1987, and died in 1998. Here he recounts his experiences and those of his father, who was also a coal miner, so that this engaging memoir also stands as a rich historical document portraying the evolution of the industry. Armistead told his story to S.L. Gardner, a former teacher and librarian who has written about coal camps for the Times West Virginian. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Karen L. Ishizuka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520248074
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Mining the Home Movie written by Karen L. Ishizuka and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history. It defines a genre of film studies and establishes the home movie as a tool for extracting historical and social insights.
Author : Michael Ruth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990551409
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Memory of a Miner written by Michael Ruth and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory of a Miner is a true account of one man's journey as an old-school miner in the southern Appalachian coal mining region of Harlan County, Kentucky, between 1931 to 1958.This is the same period that "Bloody Harlan" gained its reputation as the battleground for some of the most volatile and insidious conflicts over worker's rights this country has ever known. Although volumes have been written about the struggles and sacrifices that defined this time and place in American history, an important reality is usually missing in those accounts......the fact that despite the coal wars at home and a World War abroad, the fun times shared and the friendships made make this the most treasured time of life for most of those who lived it. And Dad has the stories to prove it! Memory of a Miner revisits his journey - told from his perspective - of the bad and the good. Dad not only loved mining, but he was a crack storyteller to boot! Anyone who enjoys a good story will be delighted to find this book packed full of hilarious, one-of-a-kind real-life adventures recreated by this world-class storyteller.Memory of a Miner retains the historical integrity of the period by weaving facts of record with first-hand accounts of a miner right in the thick of it all. Readers who fancy stories about salt-of-the-earth folk who fight for what they believe in...and win...will love Memory of a Miner. This narrative fleshes out the robust day-to-day life of real people who knew how to work hard and play hard. As such, Memory of a Miner is an inspiring commentary on life which we can all relate to - a journal of joy and sadness, success and failure, hardship and bounty on an intimate scale. The story of a real-life hero who conquered unbelievable odds and not only persevered, but discovered how to truly enjoy life.
Author : Ginger English
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781502771605
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Miner Memories written by Ginger English and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After writing my Miner Memories monthly column for local newspaper, The Saline Courier, I was encouraged by many to preserve those stories for future generations. Many stories were borne from this unique company-owned mining town with a diverse ethnic population located in Central Arkansas. Many outstanding characters emerged from the underground bauxite ore mines with tales to share. Other stories were just known facts by the locals with a few embellished situations inserted to make a more interesting tale. In this book, the information has been researched and are is as factual as possible.
Author : C. Don Byrd
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781489515032
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Memories of a Coal Miner's Son written by C. Don Byrd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an America that doesn't exist anymore – one where men made their living in the darkest recesses of the Earth while their wives worked in the home from sunup to sundown and children helped with the chores from the time they could walk. But growing up as a coal miner's son wasn't all work and no play, as C. Don writes in Memories of a Coal Miner's Son, My Grandpa, My Dad, and Me, his poignant yet light-hearted memoir of growing up in the hills of eastern Tennessee in the 1940s and 1950s. Byrd, a retired insurance executive, decided to record his memories so his children and grandchildren could learn more of their family history – while also gaining awareness of the hard-working men and women who shaped the Byrd family. Some of Byrd's stories have been excerpted in Tennessee Ancestors and in the Des Moines Register. You don't have to be Southerner or a miner's descendant to enjoy Memories of a Coal Miner's Son. You just need to remember a time when people put in a good day's work, feared the Lord, and maybe broke away for a little fishin' on a Sunday afternoon.
Author : Billy Ray Bibb
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728300835
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book A Miner’s Family Life written by Billy Ray Bibb and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dare we compare mining to slavery? In a way, yes. Although miners were not physically owned, they were mentally owned by their work. Livelihoods were owned by the company store—which was detrimental both emotionally and psychologically—making life difficult for not just the miners but their families, too. Many immigrants who came to America were forced to leave their homelands, seeking a means to survive in the new world. The American Dream promised a life of freedom—but was that really true for immigrants who became miners? Mining was different from the work they were accustomed to, but immigrants thought it had to be better than what they left behind. Economically, though, they were blind. Immigrants were paid little for dangerous work, but they endured. In A Miner’s Family Life, author Billy Ray Bibb tells the story of his life and his family history. He comes from a long line of West Virginian coal miners so he knows the true story. This is dedicated to all miners, including the souls of those who suffered in body, mind, and spirit.
Author : Erez Ben-Yosef
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9781575069647
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Mining for Ancient Copper written by Erez Ben-Yosef and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new studies dedicated to Professor Beno Rothenberg, focused on copper in antiquity in the Near East, the eastern Mediterranean, and the British Isles.
Author : Craig Oldham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957134294
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book In Loving Memory of Work written by Craig Oldham and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jörg Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198887698
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization written by Jörg Arnold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this perspective, the 1984/85 miners' strike seems a desperate last stand against forces much bigger than the miners themselves -- not just the Thatcher government but the tide of historical change itself. In this ground-breaking study, Jörg Arnold challenges a declinist reading of the people working in one of Britain's most important energy industries. The study makes extensive use of previously inaccessible records to offer a new account of the British miner in the age of de-industrialisation. The book situates the miners in broader structures of feeling, and reconstructs the miners' sense of the past and the future. Arnold argues that Britain's miners went through a cyclical movement -- from loser to winner and back again -- as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century. The book reinserts the industry's 'new dawn' of the 1970s into the story of coal and shows that the miners wielded real power. The industry's reversal of fortunes, inscribed in Plan for Coal (1974), proved short-lived. It was significant all the same. Its significance, the book argues, did not lie in affecting the long-term trajectory of the coal industry. Rather, the 'new dawn' was important in raising the political and cultural stakes. The miners found themselves at the centre of sharply conflicting visions of the future at a critical juncture in Britain's history. The figure of the coal miner became invested with sharply contrasting characteristics: hero and villain, underdog and enemy, proletarian traditionalist and standard bearer of Socialist advance. The miners were no mere spectators in this process. They were agents, thought to be uniquely powerful by their numerous opponents, and half believing in this power themselves. The miners' special nature, however, jarred with the aspiration to lead an ordinary life, producing tensions that were most cruelly exposed in the year-long strike of 1984/1985.
Author : Joan S. Hust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982441589
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Coal Miner's Granddaughter written by Joan S. Hust and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan's stories of her childhood set the stage for who she is today. One of her current passions is digging wells in Togo, Africa, where she has helped build three wells and a fourth is in the works! The profits from this book will help fund well projects.
Author : Erik Kojola
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479815217
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Mining the Heartland written by Erik Kojola and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota’s Iron Range On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The crowd eagerly listened to speeches on how the project would bring long-term risks and potentially pollute the drinking water for current and future generations. A year later, another proposed mining project became the subject of a public hearing in a small town near the proposed site. But this time, local politicians and union leaders praised the mine proposal as an asset that would strengthen working-class communities in Minnesota. In many rural American communities, there is profound tension around the preservation and protection of wilderness and the need to promote and profit from natural resources. In Mining the Heartland, Erik Kojola looks at both sides of these populist movements and presents a thoughtful account of how such political struggles play out. Drawing on over a hundred ethnographic interviews with people of the region, from members of labor unions to local residents to scientists, Kojola is able to bring this complex struggle over mining to life. Focusing on both pro- and anti-mining groups, he expands upon what this conflict reveals about the way whiteness and masculinity operate among urban and rural residents, and the different ways in which class, race, and gender shape how people relate to the land. Mining the Heartland shows the negotiation and conflict between two central aspects of the state's culture and economy: outdoor recreation in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes and the lucrative mining of the Iron Range.
Author : Philippe Fournier-Viger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030049213
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book High-Utility Pattern Mining written by Philippe Fournier-Viger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of techniques for discovering high-utility patterns (patterns with a high importance) in data. It introduces the main types of high-utility patterns, as well as the theory and core algorithms for high-utility pattern mining, and describes recent advances, applications, open-source software, and research opportunities. It also discusses several types of discrete data, including customer transaction data and sequential data. The book consists of twelve chapters, seven of which are surveys presenting the main subfields of high-utility pattern mining, including itemset mining, sequential pattern mining, big data pattern mining, metaheuristic-based approaches, privacy-preserving pattern mining, and pattern visualization. The remaining five chapters describe key techniques and applications, such as discovering concise representations and regular patterns.
Author : Frank Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604166606
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Memories of a Coal Miner's Son written by Frank Perry and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy Ray Bibb
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 154627703X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Mining Town Memories written by Billy Ray Bibb and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Ray was the name his mother chose for him, but the doctor insisted his birth certificate read “William.” Knowing his mother, Billy Ray is sure she shared some choice words with the man, as “William” has been called “Billy Ray” ever since while growing up and living in the small mining town of Minden, West Virginia, where stories grow like trees. Mining Town Memories is a collection of poems that tell the tall and small tales of those living and dying near the New River. This is a look into the everyday life of the miner, how he strives to work under difficult conditions, surviving in and outside the mine. Families had to survive, too, on the little money earned, making extra effort to provide for their needs. A close insight into the mining life, this collection portrays the mental and emotional state of a hard-working band of brothers. Many shouted from the mines for God’s protection. Some souls were lost, while othes saved. The life of a miner is a life like no other—one of darkness and strain but also hope and light, revealed now for the first time in poetic verse.
Author : Hester Barron
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191572411
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The 1926 Miners' Lockout written by Hester Barron and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound. Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective values and behaviour, focusing particularly on the tensions between identities based around class and occupation, and the rival identities that could cut across the creation of a cohesive community. Highlighting the continuing importance of differences due to gender, age, religion, poverty, and individual hopes and aspirations, she nevertheless finds that in 1926, despite such differences, the Durham coalfield continued to display the solidarity for which miners were famed. In response, Barron argues that the very concept of the 'mining community' needs to be reassessed. Rather than consisting of an homogeneous occupational identity, she suggests that the essence of community lay in its ability to subsume and integrate other categories of identity. A collective consciousness was further grounded in a shared historical narrative that had to be continually reinforced. It was the strength of such local solidarities that enabled both an exemplary regional response to the strike, and the ability to conceptualise such action within the wider framework of the national union. The 1926 Miners' Lockout provides crucial insights into issues of collective identity and collective action, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities and cultures.
Author : Alex A. Freitas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662049236
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms written by Alex A. Freitas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates two areas of computer science, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms. Both these areas have become increasingly popular in the last few years, and their integration is currently an active research area. In general, data mining consists of extracting knowledge from data. The motivation for applying evolutionary algorithms to data mining is that evolutionary algorithms are robust search methods which perform a global search in the space of candidate solutions. This book emphasizes the importance of discovering comprehensible, interesting knowledge, which is potentially useful for intelligent decision making. The text explains both basic concepts and advanced topics
