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Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Improving Safety at Small Underground Mines
Author: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Technologies for Mining
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309169836
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U. S. Department of Energy commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study on required technologies for the Mining Industries of the Future Program to complement information provided to the program by the National Mining Association. Subsequently, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health also became a sponsor of this study, and the Statement of Task was expanded to include health and safety. The overall objectives of this study are: (a) to review available information on the U.S. mining industry; (b) to identify critical research and development needs related to the exploration, mining, and processing of coal, minerals, and metals; and (c) to examine the federal contribution to research and development in mining processes.
Weekly Newspaper Service
Author: News. Weekly Newspaper Service
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The direct use of coal : prospects and problems of production and combustion.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428924779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Evaluating health and safety regulations in the American mining industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce ProtectionsPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The State of Mine Safety and Health
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1985
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1985: Congressional witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
The China Price
Author: Alexandra HarneyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A landmark eyewitness exposŽ of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Timescorrespondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal, Hobbesian world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen and unconscionable toll in human misery and environmental damage. In a way, Harney shows, what goes on in China is inevitable. In a country with almost no transparency, where graft is institutionalized and workers have little recourse to the rule of law, incentives to lie about business practices vastly outweigh incentives to tell the truth. Harney reveals that despite a decade of monitoring factories, outsiders all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods from China are made. She exposes the widespread practice of using a dummy or model factory as a company's false window out to the world, concealing a vast number of illegal factories operating completely off the books. Some Western companies are better than others about sniffing out such deception, but too many are perfectly happy to embrace plausible deniability as long as the prices remain so low. And in the gold-rush atmosphere that's infected the country, in which everyone is clamoring to get rich at once and corruption is rampant, it's almost impossible for the Chinese government's own underfunded regulatory mechanisms to do much good at all. But perhaps the most important revelation in The China Priceis how fast change is coming, one way or another. A generation of Chinese flocked from the rural interior of the country to its coastline, where its factory work largely is, in the largest mass migration in human history. But that migration has slowed dramatically, in no small part because of widespread disenchantment with the way of life the factories offer. As pollution in China's industrial cities worsens and their infrastructure buckles, and grassroots activism for more legal recourse grows, pressures are mounting on the system that will not dissipate without profound change. Managing the violence of that change is the greatest challenge China faces in the near future, and managing its impact on the world economy is the challenge that faces us all.