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Author : Frank Julian Warne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Coal-mine Workers written by Frank Julian Warne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol A. B. Giesen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813126951
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Coal Miners' Wives written by Carol A. B. Giesen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help." Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her homeland on the Tennessee River in the 1930s, she recounts the memory of upheaval and destruction caused by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Western Kentucky area that now boasts beautiful, expansive bodies of water was once home to some 20,000 people, their houses, farms, townships and ancestral history. Residents were subjected to three waves of forced relocation to make way for Kentucky Lake in the 1930s, Lake Barkley in the 1950s, and Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area in the 1960s. Renowned poet T. Crunk intersperses narrative prose and vivid lyric verse to explore the devastation one family experienced in this often overlooked episode in Kentucky history. The voices of a grandmother and grandson speak to each other over time, evoking the relentless advance of irrevocable forces that changed the land, forever.
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150442
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Black Coal Miners in America written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor -- an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.
Author : David Corbin
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ISBN 13 : 9781940425795
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields written by David Corbin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin.
Author : United Mine Workers of America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Case of the Bituminous Coal Mine Workers written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : United Mine Workers of America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book United Mine Workers Journal written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Ford Hinrichs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The United Mine Workers of America, and the Non-union Coal Fields written by Albert Ford Hinrichs and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is the purpose of this book to examine the case for and against the extension of the United Mine Workers of America to non-union coal fields." -- Page 9.
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Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The United Mine Workers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337737
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Face Boss written by and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Letwin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807846780
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Interracial Unionism written by Daniel Letwin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to colla
Author : Mark A. Bradley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652548
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America written by Mark A. Bradley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.
Author : A. F. Hinrichs
Publisher : New York : Columbia university
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The United Mine Workers of America and the Non-union Coal Fields written by A. F. Hinrichs and published by New York : Columbia university. This book was released on 1923 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Bloch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Coal Miners' Insecurity written by Louis Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Industrial Workers of the World
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Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coal-mine Workers and Their Industry written by Industrial Workers of the World and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto R. Calderón
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ISBN 13 : 9780890968840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930 written by Roberto R. Calderón and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In so doing, Calderon revises the view that Mexican workers were careless and difficult to work with and documents their struggle for recognition and union organization."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Committee of Coal Mine Managers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Facts Concerning the Struggle in Colorado for Industrial Freedom written by Committee of Coal Mine Managers and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
