Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1920
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1922
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1929
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Monthly Statement of Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States
Author: Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1921
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1925
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1923
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Coal-mine Fatalities in the United States, 1924
Author: William Waugh AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Regulating Danger
Author: James WhitesidePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803247529
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
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