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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia
Author: William Purviance Tams (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Coal Man and Coal Towns
Author: Soul Full of Coal Dust
Author: Chris HambyPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316299499
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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.
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
Author: James GreenPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192092
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
“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).
Coal Men and Coal Towns
Author: Charles Kenneth SullivanPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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We Are Not Afraid
Author: Homer HickamPublisher: Health Communications Incorporated
ISBN: 9780757300127
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Today, fear affects even the strongest of us. Sometimes it's immediate, caused by a sense of imminent danger—the kind we felt after terrorists destroyed the magnificent World Trade Center, tore a giant wound in the Pentagon and killed thousands of people. But sometimes fear becomes a normal way of life. In his best-selling memoir October Sky (aka Rocket Boys), Hickam introduced us to the rugged town of his youth, Coalwood, West Virginia, and the people who took on the hazardous and often brutal enterprise of coal mining. To survive and prosper, these people relied on an approach to living that would get them through hard times with an almost unnatural resilience. Over a lifetime, they learned to take on these attitudes: We are proud of who we are. We stand up for what we believe. We keep our families together. We trust in God but rely on ourselves. These attitudes are summed up in the Coalwood Assumption: WE ARE NOT AFRAID. Through poignant memories of his youth, best selling author Homer Hickam helps lead you beyond fear to find the courage and strength to live more happily and look toward to future with optimism.
Coal in Our Veins
Author: Erin Ann ThomasPublisher: University Press of Colorado
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Miner's Lamp -- Cymyru -- 2. A Welsh Coal Miner -- 3. The First Loco to Run on Rails -- 4. Two Miners' Sons -- 5. The Paths of Blind Horses -- Carbon County -- 6. The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin -- 7. Zeph and Maud -- 8. The Castle Gate -- 9. The Striking Years -- 10. Get the Men Out -- 11. Leaving Carbon -- 12. Ghost Towns -- Bridge -- 13. A Historical Gap -- West Virginia -- 14. The Little White Chapel -- 15. One Who Escaped -- 16. A Memorial -- 17. Mountains Made Low -- 18. String-Town Appalachia -- 19. Squatter on a Gold Mine -- Washington, D.C. -- 20. The Energy Future of America -- 21. A Drop in the Bucket -- 22. Yes to Electric Reliability -- Coda -- 23. In the Bowels of the Earth -- 24. The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales -- 25. The Winds of Change -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Sources.
Men and Coal
Author: McAlister ColemanPublisher: New York, Arno
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Category : Coal-miners
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Coal People
Author: Richard J. ClynePublisher: University Press of Colorado
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The area of focus for this study is the coal towns in Las Animas and Huerfano counties.
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