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Author : United States. Coal Mines Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Medical Survey of the Bituminous-coal Industry written by United States. Coal Mines Administration and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of the Interior written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Dept. of the Interior
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Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ... written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Supreme Court
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Health Inquiry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Jane Appel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147732965X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book American Coal written by Mary Jane Appel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC. In 1946 the Truman administration made a promise to striking coal miners: as part of a deal to resume work, the government would sponsor a nationwide survey of health and labor conditions in mining camps. One instrumental member of the survey team was photographer Russell Lee. Lee had made his name during the Depression, when, alongside Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, he used his camera to document agrarian life for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Now he trained his lens on miners and their families to show their difficult circumstances despite their essential contributions to the nation's first wave of postwar growth. American Coal draws from the thousands of photographs that Lee made for the survey—also on view in the US National Archives and Records Administration’s exhibition Power & Light—and includes his original, detailed captions as well as an essay by biographer Mary Jane Appel and historian Douglas Brinkley. They place his work in context and illuminate how Lee helped win improved conditions for his subjects through vivid images that captured an array of miners and their communities at work and at play, at church and in school, in moments of joy and struggle, ultimately revealing to their fellow Americans the humanity and resilience of these underrecognized workers.
Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199934851
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book They Say in Harlan County written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
Author : United States. Dept. of the Interior
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report - The Secretary of the Interior written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1860 pages
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Download or read book United States Government Publications Monthly Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Biederman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 163388709X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book A Mighty Force written by Marcia Biederman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last half of 1945, news of the war’s end and aftermath shared space with reports of a battle on the home front, led by a woman. She was Elizabeth O. Hayes, MD, doctor for a coal company that owned the town of Force, PA, where sewage contaminated the drinking waters, and ambulances sank into muddy unpaved roads while corrupt managers, ensconced in Manhattan high-rises, refused to make improvements. When Hayes resigned to protest intolerable living conditions, 350 miners followed her in strike, shaking the foundation of the town and attracting a national media storm. Press – including women reporters, temporarily assigned to national news desks in wartime – flocked to the small mining town to champion Dr. Hayes’ cause. Slim, blonde, and 33, “Dr. Betty” became the heroine of an environmental drama that captured the nation’s attention, complete with mustache-twirling villains, surprises, setbacks, and a mostly happy ending. News outlets ranging from Business Week to the Daily Worker applauded her guts. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about her. Soldiers followed her progress in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, flooding her with fan mail. A Philadelphia newspaper recommended Dr. Betty’s prescription to others: “Rx: Get Good and Angry.” President Harry S. Truman referred her grievances to his justice department, which handed her a victory. A Mighty Force is the only book, popular or academic, written about Hayes. Readers interested in feminism, the environment, corporate accountability, and the World War II home front will be excited to discover this engaging, untold episode in women’s history. Fortunately, a fascinated press captured Hayes’s words and deeds in scores of news pieces. Author Marcia Biederman uses these pieces, written by major news outlets and tiny local papers, as well as interviews with descendants, letters written by Hayes’s opponents, union files, court records, an observer’s scrapbook, mining company data, and a journalist’s oral history to tell the story of Dr. Betty and her pursuit of public health for the first time.
Author : National Archives (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book National Archives Accessions written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074582
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Author : Mildred A. Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271015675
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lisa Perry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738585727
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Floyd County written by Lisa Perry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floyd County, named for Kentucky pioneer John Floyd, was formed in 1799. Originally encompassing all of the Big Sandy River Valley and much of eastern Kentucky, the boundaries included portions of what are now Pike, Martin, Knott, Magoffin, and Johnson Counties. Because of its river access, Floyd County developed earlier than many counties in eastern Kentucky. Prestonsburg, the county seat, became a major river port and center of trade in the region. With the coming of the railroad in 1903 and the coal industry, which began booming in the early 20th century, the county rapidly grew. This growth included a rapid rise in population due to the migration of native-born whites from around the country, European immigrants, and African Americans from southern plantations and coalfields. What had been an agrarian, white population suddenly took on a whole new face, one more reflective of the nation. The railroads and coal industry permanently changed both the economy and culture of Floyd County.
Author : Crandall A. Shifflett
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498855
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Coal Towns written by Crandall A. Shifflett and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using oral histories, company records, and census data, Crandall A. Shifflett paints a vivid portrait of miners and their families in southern Appalachian coal towns from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. He finds that, compared to their earlier lives on subsistence farms, coal-town life was not all bad. Shifflett examines how this view, quite common among the oral histories of these working families, has been obscured by the middle-class biases of government studies and the Edenic myth of preindustrial Appalachia propagated by some historians. From their own point of view, mining families left behind a life of hard labor and drafty weatherboard homes. With little time for such celebrated arts as tale-telling and quilting, preindustrial mountain people strung more beans than dulcimers. In addition, the rural population was growing, and farmland was becoming scarce. What the families recall about the coal towns contradicts the popular image of mining life. Most miners did not owe their souls to the company store, and most mining companies were not unusually harsh taskmasters. Former miners and their families remember such company benefits as indoor plumbing, regular income, and leisure activities. They also recall the United Mine Workers of America as bringing not only pay raises and health benefits but work stoppages and violent confrontations. Far from being mere victims of historical forces, miners and their families shaped their own destiny by forging a new working-class culture out of the adaptation of their rural values to the demands of industrial life. This new culture had many continuities with the older one. Out of the closely knit social ties they brought from farming communities, mining families created their own safety net for times of economic downturn. Shifflett recognizes the dangers and hardships of coal-town life but also shows the resilience of Appalachian people in adapting their culture to a new environment. Crandall A. Shifflett is an associate professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Author : Andy Croll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878530
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies written by Andy Croll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. Adopting a regional approach that compares coalfield communities from five continents, this volume reflects coalfield experiences on a truly global scale. By looking at what made communities unique as well as what they shared in common, a much fuller understanding of the workplace, neighbourhood, family, identity and political organization is possible. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.
