Author: Charles ButtsPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
The Southern Tennessee Coal Field
Author: Charles ButtsA New South Rebellion
Author: Karin A. ShapiroPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807867055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially sought to abolish the convict lease system through legal challenges and legislative lobbying. When nonviolent tactics failed to achieve reform, the predominantly white miners repeatedly seized control of the stockades and expelled the mostly black convicts from the mining districts. Insurrection hastened the demise of convict leasing in Tennessee, though at the cost of greatly weakening organized labor in the state's coal regions. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, A New South Rebellion brings to life the hopes that rural southerners invested in industrialization and the political tensions that could result when their aspirations were not met. Karin Shapiro skillfully analyzes the place of convict labor in southern economic development, the contested meanings of citizenship in late-nineteenth-century America, the weaknesses of Populist-era reform politics, and the fluidity of race relations during the early years of Jim Crow.
The Southern Tennessee Coal Field
Author: Wilbur Armistead NelsonPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Pennsylvanian Geology of a Part of the Southern Appalachian Coal Field
Author: Harold Rollin WanlessPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813710138
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Technical Paper - Bureau of Mines
Author: United States. Bureau of MinesPublisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields
Author: Richard J. CallahanPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025300070X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining as they draw upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work. He traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining, including the spaces and social structures of coal towns, the working bodies of miners, the anxieties of their families, and the struggle toward organized labor. Building on oral histories, folklore, folksongs, and vernacular forms of spirituality, this rich and engaging narrative recovers a social history of ordinary working people through religion.
Comprehensive Impacts of Permit Decisions Under Tennessee Federal Program
Author: United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and EnforcementPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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