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Author: Katherine A. Harvey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 518
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USA. Historical study of the working conditions and living conditions of coal miners in the coal mining region of maryland between 1835 and 1910 - covers national origins, housing, family budgets, leisure activities, child labour, the evolution of labour relations, the failure of trade union development, etc., and comments on labour legislation relating to labour inspection. Bibliography pp. 464 to 477, map and statistical tables.
Author: Katherine A. Harvey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 518
Book Description
USA. Historical study of the working conditions and living conditions of coal miners in the coal mining region of maryland between 1835 and 1910 - covers national origins, housing, family budgets, leisure activities, child labour, the evolution of labour relations, the failure of trade union development, etc., and comments on labour legislation relating to labour inspection. Bibliography pp. 464 to 477, map and statistical tables.
Author: John R. McNeill Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520279174 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 456
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"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Robert David Ward Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817312137 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
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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.
Author: John Braithwaite Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791497372 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 226
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In To Punish or Persuade, John Braithwaite declares that coal mine disasters are usually the result of corporate crime. He surveys 39 coal mine disasters from around the world, including 19 in the United States since 1960, and concludes that mine fatalities are usually not caused by human error or the unstoppable forces of nature. He shows that a combination of punitive and educative measures taken against offenders can have substantial effects in reducing injuries to miners. Braithwaite not only develops a model for determining the optimal mix of punishment and persuasion to maximize mine safety, but provides regulatory agencies in general with a model for mixing the two strategies to ensure compliance with the law. To Punish or Persuade looks at coal mine safety in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, France, Belgium, and Japan. It examines closely the five American coal mining companies with the best safety performance in the industry: U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Consolidation Coal Company, Island Creek Coal Company, and Old Ben Coal Company. It also takes a look at the safety record of unionized versus non-unionized mines and how safety regulation enforcement impacts productivity.
Author: Katherine A. Harvey
Author: Katherine A. Harvey
Author: John R. McNeill
Author: Robert David Ward
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Mines
Author: Gwyn Evans
Author: George Watkin Evans
Author: William Graebner
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Author: John Braithwaite
Author: William Shirley Bayley