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Book Synopsis The Devil Is Here in These Hills by : James Green
Download or read book The Devil Is Here in These Hills written by James Green and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Download or read book Coal Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to Pennsylvanian Carboniferous-Age Plant Fossils of Southwest Virginia. by : Thomas F. McLoughlin
Download or read book A Guide to Pennsylvanian Carboniferous-Age Plant Fossils of Southwest Virginia. written by Thomas F. McLoughlin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in southwestern Virginia. The fossils are sorted by groups and located as to coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of plant types are provided. This publication has been designed with the armature (rock hound), as well as a virtual guide for the more advanced collectors. There are 57 plates with more than 280 illustrations, most of which are in color.
Book Synopsis Analyses of Virginia Coals by : United States. Bureau of Mines
Download or read book Analyses of Virginia Coals written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in the Mines written by Marat Moore and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Mines informs, provokes and inspires from first page to last with gripping stories from coalfield women from 1914 to 1994. Early women miners describe handloading coal to help their families survive. The 1970s generation talks openly about sexual harassment, community attitudes, pregnancy, health and safety, racism, aging, and unemployment. The stories demonstrate the strength and resilience of women who accepted the challenge of nontraditional work and the changes in their lives brought by that decision.
Book Synopsis The Geology of the Virginia Triassic by : Joseph Kent Roberts
Download or read book The Geology of the Virginia Triassic written by Joseph Kent Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection contains the signed, autograph manuscript of Roberts' book which was also published as a Ph.D. thesis at Johns Hopkins University.
Download or read book Industrial Arts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Americanization of West Virginia by : John C. Hennen
Download or read book The Americanization of West Virginia written by John C. Hennen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business and patriotism. Industrial leaders gaining legal as well as moral influence over national domestic policy. Such scenes might seem to be lifted from a Sinclair Lewis novel or a Contract with America publicity video. But as John C. Hennen shows in this piercing analysis of early-twentieth-century American political culture, from 1916 to 1925 "Americanization" became the theme—indeed, the script—not only of West Virginia but of the entire nation. Hennen's interdisciplinary work examines a formative period in West Virginia's modern history that has been largely neglected beyond the traditional focus on the coal industry. Hennen looks at education, reform, and industrial relations in the state in the context of war mobilization, postwar instability, and national economic expansion. The First World War, he says, consolidated the dominant positions of professionals, business people, and political capitalists as arbiters of national values. These leaders emerged from the war determined to make free-market business principles synonymous with patriotic citizenship. Americanization, therefore, refers less to the assimilation of immigrants into the national mainstream than to the attempt to encode values that would guarantee a literate, loyal, and obedient producing class. To ensure that the state fulfilled its designated role as a resource zone for the perceived greater good of national strength, corporate leaders employed public relations tactics that the Wilson administration had refined to gain public support for the war. Alarmed by widespread labor activism and threatened by fears of communism, the American Constitutional Association in West Virginia, one of dozens of similar organizations nationwide, articulated principles that identified the well-being of business with the well-being of the country. With easy access to teacher training and classroom programs, antiunion forces had by 1923 rolled back the wartime gains of the United Mine Workers of America. Middle-class voluntary organizations like the American Legion and the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs helped implant mandated loyalty in schoolchildren. Far from being isolated during America's transformation into a world power, West Virginia was squarely in the mainstream. The state's people and natural resources were manipulated into serving crucial functions as producers and fuel for the postwar economy. Hennen's study, therefore, is a study less of the power or force of ideas than of the importance of access to the means to transmit ideas. The winner of the1995 Appalachian Studies Award is a significant contribution to regional studies as well as to our understanding of American culture during and after World War I.
Book Synopsis A Legacy of Coal by : Margaret M. Mulrooney
Download or read book A Legacy of Coal written by Margaret M. Mulrooney and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iron Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Redevelopment in Bituminous Coal by : Carroll Lawrence Christenson
Download or read book Economic Redevelopment in Bituminous Coal written by Carroll Lawrence Christenson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Radioactive Coal and Shale of Pennsylvanian and Permian Age in Northern West Virginia by : Elmer Davisson Patterson
Download or read book Radioactive Coal and Shale of Pennsylvanian and Permian Age in Northern West Virginia written by Elmer Davisson Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia by : Ronald G. Garay
Download or read book U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia written by Ronald G. Garay and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is well written and meticulously documented; it will add significantly to the available literature on West Virginia’s industrial and community history. It should find a receptive audience among college and post- graduate scholars of industrial and labor history, West Virginia history, and Appalachian studies.” —John Lilly, editor, Goldenseal The company owned the houses. It owned the stores. It provided medical and governmental services. It provided practically all the jobs. Gary, West Virginia, a coal mining town in the southern part of the state, was a creation of U.S. Steel. And while the workers were not formally bound to the company, their fortunes—like that of their community—were inextricably tied to the success of U.S. Steel. Gary developed in the early twentieth century as U.S. Steel sought a new supply of raw material for its industrial operations. The rich Pocahontas coal field in remote southern West Virginia provided the carbon-rich, low-sulfur coal the company required. To house the thousands of workers it would import to mine that coal bed, U.S. Steel carved a town out of the mountain wilderness. The company was the sole reason for its existence. In this fascinating book, Ronald Garay tells the story of how industry-altering decisions made by U.S. Steel executives reverberated in the hollows of Appalachia. From the area’s industrial revolution in the early twentieth century to the peak of steel-making activity in the 1940s to the industry’s decline in the 1970s, U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia offers an illuminating example of how coal and steel paternalism shaped the eastern mountain region and the limited ways communities and their economies evolve. In telling the story of Gary, this volume freshly illuminates the stories of other mining towns throughout Appalachia. At once a work of passionate journalism and a cogent analysis of economic development in Appalachia, this work is a significant contribution to the scholarship on U.S. business history, labor history, and Appalachian studies. Ronald Garay, a professor emeritus of mass communication at Louisiana State University, is the author of Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio and The Manship School: A History of Journalism Education at LSU.
Download or read book The Retail Coalman written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cooperative Bulletin: Mining and Metallurgical Investigations by : Carnegie Institute of Technology
Download or read book Cooperative Bulletin: Mining and Metallurgical Investigations written by Carnegie Institute of Technology and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining and Engineering World written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
