Author: Boris EmmetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Labor Relations in the Fairmont, West Virginia, Bituminous Coal Field
Author: Boris EmmetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Labor Relations in the Fairmont, West Virginia, Bituminous Coal Field
Author: Boris EmmetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Labor Relations in the Fairmont, West Virginia, Bituminous Coal Field
Author: Boris EmmetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: Economic Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry Under Free Competition and Code Regulation
Author: United States. National Recovery Administration. Division of ReviewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publications
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Case of Bituminous Coal
Author: Walton H. Hamilton, Helen R. Wright Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Black Coal Miners in America
Author: Ronald L. LewisPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor—an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.
Monthly Labor Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Ramp Hollow
Author: Steven StollPublisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429946970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.