Author: Alabama. Board of Inspectors of Convicts (1885-1893)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Inspectors of Convicts
Author: Alabama. Board of Inspectors of Convicts (1885-1893)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
Author: Robert David WardPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone, and iron ore—the exact ingredients for the manufacture of iron and, later, steel—began to be exploited. Now, with transportation, modern extractive techniques, and capital, the region’s geological riches began yielding enormous profits. A labor force was necessary to maintain and expand the Birmingham area’s industrial boom. Many workers were native Alabamians. There was as well an immigrant ethnic work force, small but important. The native and immigrant laborers became problems for management when workers began affiliating with labor unions and striking for higher wages and better working conditions. In the wake of the management-labor disputes, the industrialists resorted to an artificial work force—convict labor. Alabama’s state and county officials sought to avoid expense and reap profits by leasing prisoners to industry and farms for their labor. This book is about the men who worked involuntarily in the Banner Coal Mine, owned by the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. And it is about the repercussions and consequences that followed an explosion at the mine in the spring of 1911 that killed 128 convict miners.
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism
Author: Daniel LetwinPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807846780
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to colla
Checklist of Department Reports in the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Annual report
Author: United States. Department of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor
Author: United States. Bureau of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Report of the Commrs. of Prisons & the Directors of Convict Prisons
Author: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor
Author: Annual Report
Author: Michigan. Board of State AuditorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons
Author: Great Britain. Prison CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description