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Men In Mascara A Coal Miners Story
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Book Synopsis Men in Mascara: A Coal Miner's Story by : Robert Phipps
Download or read book Men in Mascara: A Coal Miner's Story written by Robert Phipps and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eager but afraid a young man descends into a bottomless pit, into an unknown future, a future filled with immense joy but also great heart-ache. In this powerful autobiography, Robert Phipps combines both humour and sombreness to depict his years working as a Pit Electrician in Derbyshire in the late 1950s. Spanning two decades he describes his experiences of a time now buried deep in history. From childhood pleasures and young romance to the dark menacing face of the coal mine, Robert encounters perilous danger, tragic deaths and life-changing decisions. He writes about his harrowing time on the coal face but also describes countless moments of laughter and joy in such threatening surroundings and about the circumstances which led to him leaving the mine and starting a new life. This is a moving account of family ties, ever-lasting friendships, and above all human strength and perseverance.
Book Synopsis Soul Full of Coal Dust by : Chris Hamby
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.
Download or read book The Camerons written by Robert Crichton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her 16th birthday, Maggie Drum sets out from the grimy streets of her Scottish coalmining town to find a man of pride, independence and spirit fit enough to be her husband. She finds her man in Gillon Cameron, a tall fisherman from the Highlands, who will learn to go down into the mines yet refuse to settle for the grinding poverty of the coal miner's life. In a world that treats coal miners as little more than slaves, Maggie's steely determination and Gillon's abiding pride stake their claim to a better future for themselves and seven children. Robert Crichton, author of The Secret of Santa Vittoria, brings his stellar storytelling gifts to this sweeping family epic, capturing the Camerons' moments of triumph and loss, bitterness and love set in the magnificent landscapes and social battles of 19th century Scotland. First published in 1972, and a New York Times bestseller for more than five months, The Camerons draws you in with what at first appears to be a straightforward family drama, then captivates you by the complexity and depth of the Camerons' struggle to create a future of hope and triumph.
Book Synopsis Union Women by : Mary Margaret Fonow
Download or read book Union Women written by Mary Margaret Fonow and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter century, steel mills in the United States and Canada have produced more than metal: they have produced a new kind of worker and union activist -- "Women of Steel." In an era labeled postfeminist and postindustrial, women have created spaces in this quintessentially male-dominated workforce from which to mobilize for their rights as women and workers. In Union Women, Mary Margaret Fonow captures the stories of the women of the United Steelworkers. She focuses on a tenacious group who used their developing power in the union to challenge sex discrimination and to advocate for women's rights, and applied their transnational resources to construct a feminist response to globalization and economic restructuring. In the process, they have transformed the organizations, resources, and networks of both the labor and women's movements, and have in turn transformed themselves into feminists. In Union Women Fonow uses statistical, archival, and ethnographic research methods to provide a broad historical account of women in the steel industry. Fonow's sweeping approach allows her to examine several key issues in social movement, feminist, and political theory, and to show that insights from these fields shape each other. She explores how social movements are gendered, how working-class women develop a feminist consciousness, and how this process is informed by intersecting demands of race, class, and gender. As a comparative, cross-national study, Union Women also demonstrates how different political and social cultures affect women's organizing and strategic decisions. Finally, Fonow emphasizes that economic restructuring and globalization pose immediate challenges forwomen as laborers and activists, and that, in order to survive, all unions must develop organizing and mobilization strategies informed by feminism and other social movements.
Book Synopsis Mascara Contra Mascara by : James Swift
Download or read book Mascara Contra Mascara written by James Swift and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teenager, D.J. dreamed of one day becoming a professional wrestler and following in the footsteps of his masked childhood hero. After experiencing the bittersweet realities of growing up, however, he finds himself living a very different life as a thirty-year-old claims adjuster, stuck in a deadening routine. When he dons an unorthodox wardrobe and begins wearing it everywhere, he becomes an unlikely celebrity and soon finds himself making a difficult decision: will he allow the newfound fame to go to his head, or will he fight to maintain the values he has held dear since days of his youth? MASCARA CONTRA MASCARA is a raucous, rollicking, social satire, every bit as side-splitting as it is thought-provoking. James Swift s tale of cultural fiction is an offbeat comedy thats sure to tickle the funny bones of the assimilated and the isolated alike.
Book Synopsis The Small Acts-Performance by : Tim Etchells
Download or read book The Small Acts-Performance written by Tim Etchells and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Small Acts documents the work of fourteen performance artists who marked the personal and political resonances of the new Millennium in a series of site-specific actions" -- back cover.
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Book Synopsis When God Wants to Punish You He Answers Your Prayers by : Robert V. Fiorella
Download or read book When God Wants to Punish You He Answers Your Prayers written by Robert V. Fiorella and published by Author House. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom loves Jenny. Tom marries Jenny. Tom and Jenny should live happily ever after--.but life intervenes. Tom gets burned, tries to deny his soul, and loses his way. Then Jenny, the love of his life, leaves him to share a bed with Satan, and Toms world falls apart. He decides to focus all his time and energy on fixing his life and getting Jenny back. To accomplish this daunting task Tom stops talking and withdraws into himself where he feels certain he can find the answers hes looking for. To get away from outside distractions and well meaning kith and kin he enters a cushy psychiatric center. While in this upscale Booby Hatch Tom finds himself drawn into the lives of his fellow loons. As he works through his problems Tom rediscovers a part of himself that he thought he had buried a long time ago. He realizes that hes been the unwitting master of his own destruction, and he undergoes a kind of rebirth that puts him in touch with his nature. Tom learns that sometimes, when God wants to punish you He answers your prayers.
Book Synopsis Where Do We Go from Here? by : Ann Forster
Download or read book Where Do We Go from Here? written by Ann Forster and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers variety as it "lifts the lid" on mediumship - a peek behind the scenes. Have you ever wondered how mediums "know what they know"? Some of the answers are here. Have you ever thought about your own death, what it will feel like? Is there an afterlife or is death the end? The read is compelling, chapter after chapter of people's experiences such as astral journeys to other parts of the country and even to the Spirit world itself. Mediumship in children, and accounts of visual phenomena are fascinating, whilst the chapters describing poltergeist activity, premonitions about disasters and amorous spirits may leave you with a tingle down your spine! Ann discusses the emotive, often taboo, subject of suicide. People who have "lost" someone this way know how they feel about it, through her spiritual encounters during the course of her work, she is able to put across the feelings of the Spirits who committed suicide and find out what they have to say. Some chapters such as "Humour from the Spirit World" will make you laugh, whilst many others, such as "Murder in a Phone Box" and "Lisa", may bring forth tears of emotion. Ann pays tribute, throughout her book, to her friend Jenny who passed to Spirit in 1995. Herself a psychic, she "endured" premonitions of tragic incidents such as Lockerbie in 1988. This book is for anyone with an open mind who wishes to know more about spiritual and psychic matters, I must warn you to be prepared for an emotional roller-coaster ride!
Book Synopsis The Price of Colorado Coal by : George Ewing Ogle
Download or read book The Price of Colorado Coal written by George Ewing Ogle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Price of Colorado Coal is based on two events in the history of Colorado coal mining that are called massacres: Ludlow (1914) and Columbine (1927). Each is a drama of deep tragedy. At Ludlow an entire tent village, occupied by coal miners and their families, was riddled by company and militia machine gun fire and then burned to the ground, killing men, women and children. Thirteen years later at Columbine, picketing unionists were ambushed; six were killed and twenty wounded. A philosophy of unrestrained capitalism, wherein the captains of industry had the right to freely use labor in any way they saw fit, still ruled in the minds of Colorado's coal barons. This philosophy conflicted sharply with the newly emerging demand of workers for the right to organize and improve wages and conditions of labor. Ludlow and Columbine are but two instances of the industrial warfare that wracked eastern Colorado for a hundred years. This is a book of dramatic fiction with a message from history. All the characters in the story are fictional except for Mother Jones, Josephine Roche, John Osgood, John Rockefeller and other well-known persons. The story centers on two boys who begin their lives as miners at the ages of eight and ten. Following the deaths of their fathers in mining accidents, they become leaders in the union movement and are entangled in the tragic massacres of Ludlow and Columbine. As the mining communities struggle for better safety conditions and human dignity there is amazing solidarity among workers who speak different languages and come from many different cultures. Because of the collusion between corporations and the state militia, however, much suffering is inflicted on the miners. Within this sad drama are stories of love and community as well as a glimpse of the joy of being coalminers.
Book Synopsis When Spirits Break Free by : Andy Evans & Vesna Kovac
Download or read book When Spirits Break Free written by Andy Evans & Vesna Kovac and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy had never fit into the mould of tradition. Born into a world where coal was king and sons followed their fathers into the depths to cut out the coals to feed a hungry nation.He preferred the comfort and solace of his own company rather than playing the games of old along the cobbled streets of Castlefields.At times however, Molly, Billy's mother suspected her son was never quite alone within the family home. At times hushed voices would be heard creeping from the darkest corners, voices she was sure were not of imagination.In later years experiments with hallucinogenic mushrooms once more opened the doorways to the darkened recesses within his mind. The key had once again been turned, foretelling not only of Billy's destiny, but also the destiny of those around him.
Book Synopsis Springsteen as Soundtrack by : Caroline Madden
Download or read book Springsteen as Soundtrack written by Caroline Madden and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog nearly fifty years in the making, Bruce Springsteen's music remains popular and a frequent subject of study yet little critical attention has been given to its inclusion in film and television. This book examines a selection of films and TV shows from the 1980s to the present--including Mask, High Fidelity, The Sopranos and The Wrestler--that feature Springsteen's music on the soundtrack. Relating his thematic preoccupations with religion, the Vietnam War, the promise of the open road, economic disparity and blue-collar malaise, his songs color narrative and articulate the inner lives of characters. This book explores the many on-screen contexts of Springsteen's work from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to Springsteen on Broadway.
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Download or read book Time Out Film Guide written by John Pym and published by Time Out Guides. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a collection of engaging and provocative capsule reviews of films across the spectrum of cinema history, from Russian silent movies to American comedies, classic documentaries to Japanese anime, and beyond.
Book Synopsis White Skin, Black Fuel by : Andreas Malm
Download or read book White Skin, Black Fuel written by Andreas Malm and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian president has opened the Amazon and watched it burn. In Europe, parties denying the crisis and insisting on maximum combustion have stormed into office, from Sweden to Spain. On the brink of breakdown, the forces most aggressively promoting business-as-usual have surged - always in defense of white privilege, against supposed threats from non-white others. Where have they come from? The first study of the far right in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, and reveals its deep historical roots. Fossil-fueled technologies were born steeped in racism. None loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. As such forces rise to the surface, some profess to have the solution - closing borders to save the climate. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.
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Book Synopsis Hearings on Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
Download or read book Hearings on Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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