The History Of Legislation For The Protection Of Coal Miners In Pennsylvania 1824 1915
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Author | : Alexander Trachtenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Coal-miners |
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Author | : Alexander TRACHTENBERG |
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Release | : 1942 |
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Author | : Alexander Trachtenberg |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780879918170 |
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Author | : Martin L. Zeigler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Author | : Sean Patrick Adams |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040251080 |
Download The American Coal Industry 1790-1902, Volume I Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The emergence of coal-based fuel economy over the course of the nineteenth century was one of the most significant features of America’s Industrial Revolution, but the transition from wood to mineral energy sources was a gradual one that transpired over a number of decades. The documents in these volumes recreate the institutional history of the American coal industry in the nineteenth century — providing a first-hand perspective on the developments in regard to political economy, business structure and competition, the rise of formal trade unions, and the creation of a national coal trade. Although the collection strives to be wide-ranging in region and theme, the Pennsylvania anthracite coal trade forms the thematic backbone as it became the most important American mineral resource to see successful development throughout the nineteenth century. Consequently it saw unprecedented levels of intervention by the federal government. The texts for this collection were selected for their accessibility to modern readers as well as their relationship to a series of common themes across the nineteenth century American coal industry — with headnotes and annotations provided to explain their context and the reasons for their inclusion.In this first volume, covering the period 1790-1835, the selected documents seek to reconcile the optimism surrounding the early American coal industry with the difficulties in actually realising its growth. It presents voices that capture the optimism and frustration of the Rhode Island and Virginia colliers, before focusing on the rise of Pennsylvania’s anthracite region — tracing the false-starts and ideological hostility that accompanied the early coal trade.
Author | : Philip S. Klein |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 027103839X |
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Author | : William Graebner |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813186218 |
Download Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society. A series of mine disasters in December 1907 (including one in Monongah, West Virginia, which took a toll of 361 lives) shook the public, at least temporarily, out of its lethargy. In this award-winning study, author William Graebner traces the development of mine safety reform in the years immediately following these tragic events. Reform activities during the Progressive period centered on the Bureau of Mines and an effort to obtain uniform state legislation; the effect of each was minimal. Mr. Graebner concludes that these idealistic solutions of the time were at once the great hope and the great failure of the Progressive coal-mining safety movement.
Author | : Hiram Brown Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Download Historical Summary of Coal-mine Explosions in the United States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Paul David Blanc |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-11-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0300224885 |
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When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of “fake silk,” or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. Paul Blanc uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment. Viscose, an innovative and lucrative product first introduced in the early twentieth century, quickly became a multinational corporate enterprise. Blanc investigates industry practices from the beginning through two highly profitable world wars, the midcentury export of hazardous manufacturing to developing countries, and the current “greenwashing” of viscose as an eco-friendly product. Deeply researched and boldly presented, this book brings to light an industrial hazard whose egregious history ranks with those of asbestos, lead, and mercury.
Author | : Kevin Kenny |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1481 |
Release | : 1998-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199880387 |
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Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, author Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration.