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Author : Dolores Plested
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ISBN 13 : 9780962061608
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Life and Death of a Coal Mine written by Dolores Plested and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Life and Death in Coal Mines written by and published by . This book was released on 1858* with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn Nesbit Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937147082
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Day the Whistle Blew written by Marilyn Nesbit Wood and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1940s coal camp of Stansbury, Wyoming, life revolved around the underground mine, community, and family. In many ways, it was the idyllic model town Union Pacific Coal had built it to be. Families had homes with indoor plumbing, children enjoyed friendship and freedom, and the men had a steady income. But demand for coal waned, and then one day unexpectedly the whistle blew and Wood s life turned upside down. Wood writes honestly and compellingly about mines and miners, coal camp kids, miners wives, company towns, letting go, and acceptance.
Author : John Stricklin Spratt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Thurber, Texas written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert E Hartley
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809387991
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Death Underground written by Robert E Hartley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities. Politics at the highest level of Illinois government played a critical role in the conditions that led to the accidents. Hartley and Kenney address how safety was compromised when inspection reports were widely ignored by state mining officials and mine company supervisors. Highlighted is the role of Driscoll Scanlan, a state inspector at Centralia, who warned of an impending disaster but whose political enemies shifted the blame to him, ruining his career. Hartley and Kenney also detail the New Orient No. 2 mine explosion, the attempts at rescue, and the resulting political spin circulated by labor, management, and the state bureaucracy. They outline the investigation, the subsequent hearings, and the efforts in Congress to legislate greater mine safety. Hartley and Kenney include interviews with the survivors, a summary of the investigative records, and an analysis of the causes of both mine accidents. They place responsibility for the disasters on individual mine owners, labor unions, and state officials, providing new interpretations not previously presented in the literature. Augmented by twenty-nine illustrations, the volume also covers the history, culture, and ethnic pluralism of coal mining in Illinois and the United States.
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 : Albert D. Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414002538
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Death Destruction and Disaster in the American Coal Mining Industry 2001 written by Albert D. Browning and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a critical review of fatal injuries and safety data occurring in the coal mining industry since 1900. Excellent charts and graphs are used to magnify and place special emphasis on safety data from 1982 through 2001. A list of disasters that occurred from 1900 - 2001 are included which reflect the tragic past of the coal mining industry. The book provides an individual summary describing each of the fatal coal mining injuries that occurred during the year 2001. Beginning and experienced miners, mine managers, and the general public as a whole can glean enormous amounts of information and gain knowledge necessary to improve both their own safety as well as the safety of their fellow workers.
Author : Michael Pollard
Publisher : Century
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hardest Work Under Heaven written by Michael Pollard and published by Century. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol A.B. Giesen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189489
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 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 2021-12-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people in America today live with the dangers and deprivations that Appalachian coal mining families experience. But to the eighteen West Virginia women Carol Giesen interviewed for this book, hard times are just everyday life. These coal miners' wives, ranging in age from late teens to eighty-five, tell of a way of life dominated by coal mining—and shadowed by a constant fear of death or injury to a loved one. From birth to old age, they experience the social and economic pressures of the coal mining industry. Few families in these communities earn their living in any job outside a coal mine, and most young men and women find no advantage in completing their education. Women whose stresses and strengths have seldom been disclosed reveal here their personal stories, their understanding of the dangers of coal mining, their domestic concerns, the place of friends and faith in their lives, and their expectations of the future. What emerges is a deeply moving story of determination in the face of adversity. Over and over, these women deal with the frustrations caused by strikes, layoffs, and mine closings, often taking any jobs they can find while their husbands are out of work. Endlessly; their home concerns revolve around protecting their husbands from additional work or worry. Always there is fear for their husbands' lives and the pervasive anger they feel toward the mining companies. For some, there is also the pain of losing a loved one to the mines. Behind these women's acceptance of their circumstances lies a pragmatic understanding of the politics of mining and of the communities in which they live. Giesen's insights into the experiences of miners' wives contribute much to our understanding of the impact of industry, economics, and politics on women's lives.
Author : John Stricklin Spratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598026644
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Thurber, Texas written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : Contemporary Research Press
ISBN 13 : 9781733230018
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book In the Depths of a Coal Mine: With a New Introduction: Background and Relevance Today written by Stephen Crane and published by Contemporary Research Press. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crane's "In the Depths of a Coal Mine" was originally published in McClure's Magazine, August 1894. S.S. McClure hired Crane, together with illustrator Corwin L. Linson, to write and illustrate a descriptive essay about the everyday horrors encountered in working in a typical American coal mine at the turn of the twentieth century. They toured, for two days, the Oxford Coal Mine in Scranton in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country. Their findings were quite graphic in showing the inhumane conditions and dangers of the mine, so much so that the essay was referenced in a healthcare bill for retired miners proposed by Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania in the twenty-first century. Through both word and illustration, writer and illustrator show the life-threatening conditions in mine labor shared by all the workers, from the young, lowly "pickers" to the older men doing the digging. The essay appeared during a time in American history when there were no regulations on the mines, and injuries and death to those working in the mines ran rampant. In a new introduction, Donna M. Northouse provides close examination of the literary and historical value of Crane's essay, its historical context, the aesthetic value of LInson's black-and-white charcoal illustrations, plus pertinent biographical information on Crane, Linson, and their friendship. The introduction ends with a survey of mining accidents beginning in 1860's America plus relevant political events, and Congressional legislation through 2019. Other sections of the book reprint the five paragraphs McClure's deleted from the holograph version of the manuscript and scholarship surrounding the variations in texts in the newspaper versions compared to the holograph manuscript and McClure's Magazine version.
Author : Peter A. Galuszka
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250000211
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Thunder on the Mountain written by Peter A. Galuszka and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The searing true story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Massey Energy, and the negligence that led to the death of 29 miners, exposing the coal-black motivations that fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.
Author : Roger Braden
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ISBN 13 : 9781630620523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Always at the Edge of Death-The Life of a Coal Miner written by Roger Braden and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ed Rabel
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ISBN 13 : 9781499375909
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Black Gold, Black Death written by Ed Rabel and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Metz is more than he seems to be—more than a coal miner who knows no other way to make a living. Yet when his wife begs him to get out of the mine in Cabin Creek, West Virginia, he does not heed her plea. The mountain rumbles, but Willie and the others continue to risk their lives digging out the black gold. Meanwhile, coal mine barons are replacing men with machines and switching operations from digging under the mountains to raping the tops of them, spoiling the streams and the air for everyone in the vicinity, not just the miners who make a living in the mines. Dan Blackman is one of those coal barons, but his life changes drastically when his life is threatened in his mine.The people in West Virginia coal mining country despise the president of the United States who has just been re-elected, judging him to be at war with Coal, and some of the leaders hatch a plot to assassinate him on their turf. Will they succeed? Will Willie's past catch up with him?Author Biography:Ed Rabel, an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and author whose reporting experience spans five decades of world-shaping events, is today a highly-respected strategic communications counselor and adjunct professor of journalism at The Edward R. Murrow College of Communications. His memoir, Ed Rabel Reports: Lies, Wars and Other Misadventures, was published by Keith Publications in September 2012.As a child of Appalachia, Rabel is supremely suited to spin this fable of Appalachia, a tale of people trapped in the hills with no way to get out and a seemingly perverted loyalty to the very thing that keeps them down. King Coal hires them, enslaves them, sickens them, kills them, and they will take on anyone who wants to fight King Coal, including the president of the United States.Ed Rabel feels their pain, but he hates their ignorance. The ignorance is what drove Ed Rabel out of the state as a young man. It is what drove Rabel to succeed, what drove him to excel at his chosen trade. As he appeared, reporting, in living rooms all over the country via CBS in the 1970s and '80s from Vietnam and elsewhere, and via NBC in the 1990s from the Pentagon, Americans received him as an old friend. Now Americans will recognize him as a person to trust in telling this story—a West Virginian telling a West Virginia tale.
Author : James Whiteside
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Protecting the Life and Limb of Our Workmen written by James Whiteside and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia E. J. Wiltshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525542213
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Life and Death written by Patricia E. J. Wiltshire and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist. From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking boots, forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire uses her decades of scientific expertise to find often-overlooked clues left behind by criminal activity. She detects evidence and eliminates hypotheses armed with little more than a microscope, eventually developing a compelling thesis of the who, what, how, and when of a crime. Wiltshire's remarkable accuracy has made her one of the most in-demand police consultants in the world, and her curiosity, humility, and passion for the truth have guided her every step of the way. A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused. Along the way, she introduces us to the unseen world all around us and underneath our feet: plants, animals, pollen, spores, fungi, and microbes that we move through every day. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and reveals how our relationship with the vast natural world reaches far deeper than we might think.
Author : Karen Tintori
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743428048
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Trapped written by Karen Tintori and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly). Inspired by a refrain of her girlhood—"Your grandfather survived the Cherry Mine disaster"—Karen Tintori began a search for her family's role in the harrowing tragedy of 1909. She uncovered the stories of victims, survivors, widows, orphans, townspeople, firefighters, reporters, and mine owners, and wove them together to pen Trapped, a riveting account of the tragic day that would inspire America's first worker's compensation laws and hasten much-needed child labor reform. On a Saturday morning in November of 1909, four hundred and eighty men went down into the mines as they had countless times before. But a fire erupted in the mineshaft that day and soon burned out of control. By nightfall, more than half the men would either be dead or trapped as officials sealed the mine in an attempt to contain the blaze. Miraculously, twenty men would emerge one week later, but not before the Cherry Mine disaster went down in history as the worst ever coal mine fire in the US—and not before all the treachery and heroism of mankind were revealed.
