The Coal Miners' Struggle for Industrial Status
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Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
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Release : 1926
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Author : Arthur Elliott Suffern
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 9780891977032
Author : Arthur Elliott Suffern
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Coal miners
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Author : Arthur Elliott Suffern
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Coal miners
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Author : Committee of Coal Mine Managers
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Coal Miners' Strike, Colo
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Author : James Alan Jaffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521529419
An account of the respective market ideologies of capital and labour during the Industrial Revolution.
Author : James Green
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802192092
“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).
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Page : 30 pages
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Release : 1914
Category : Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914
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Author : James Whiteside
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780803247529
From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.