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Coal Dust On Your Feet

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Author : Janet MacGaffey
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-05

Coal Dust On Your Feet written by Janet MacGaffey and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with History categories.

Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great economic and historic importance. The ethnographic field site of the study spans a century and a half as it looks at the history and ties to the home countries of the immigrants who established and worked the coal mines. Details of individual lives and family histories enliven accounts of industry and the struggles of the unions, means of livelihood, ethnicity, associational life and ceremonial occasions. It will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of urban studies and labor historians, and contributes to the canon of literature on community and sense of place. The study focuses on the rise and decline of the mining industry, on the ethnic groups that formed the town’s neighborhoods, and on the changes that have taken place in ethnicity, religion, class and community. It covers the period of prosperity when the factories of the New York garment industry moved into town for the middle years of the twentieth century and made Shamokin a shopping mecca. Today, the town is decimated by economic decline and population loss, but ethnicity remains an identity option and still has economic content. The strong sense of place of the people of the town rooted in their cultural and militant heritage, has given rise to a wider community of former residents who return to visit, participate in events and buy ethnic foods and cultural items. This wider community of belonging and identity helps to boost morale, sense of community and economy, in what is now primarily a retirement town with commuters traveling to work in nearby cities.

Coal Dust In My Blood

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Author : Bill Johnstone
language : en
Publisher: Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books
Release Date : 1993

Coal Dust In My Blood written by Bill Johnstone and has been published by Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art categories.

Bill Johnstone spent most of his working years as a coal miner, first in England, then in Alberta, and finally on Vancouver Island. Born in 1908 in Northumberland, England, he began working in the pits as a hand miner at the age of thirteen. After immigrating to the Canadian Prairies, where he alternated between working as a farmhand and a miner in the Alberta coal mines. In 1936, he moved to Vancouver Island where he mastered nearly every phase of coal mining from working on the picking tables to shooting explosive charges. He also studied mining engineering and mine rescue and was injured in a cave-in. Not long before his retirement, after 52 years in the mining industry, Bill Johnston became district superintendent of the Canadian Collieries mines near Cumberland.

Explosion Tests Of Pittsburgh Coal Dust In The Experimental Mine 1925 To 1932 Inclusive

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Author : George Samuel Rice
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933

Explosion Tests Of Pittsburgh Coal Dust In The Experimental Mine 1925 To 1932 Inclusive written by George Samuel Rice and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Coal mines and mining categories.

Tests In The Experimental Coal Mine Determine Requirements For Preventing Propagation Of Coal Dust Explosions In Rooms

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Author : Henry C. Howarth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948

Tests In The Experimental Coal Mine Determine Requirements For Preventing Propagation Of Coal Dust Explosions In Rooms written by Henry C. Howarth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Coal mines and mining categories.

Coaldust

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Author : Reg Brown
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-07-05

Coaldust written by Reg Brown and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Fiction categories.

Sometimes witty, sometimes cynical, these stories were inspired by people with whom the author came into contact, events of which he became aware and influences which he came under as a boy. They convey the anxieties of the 1930s and '40s and the insecurities of the mining communities. Often raw and earthy, they paint a picture of a society peopled mainly by migrants from the older coalfields, thrown together by economic and social forces and not yet secure in their new identities. The author's awareness of British social history helps to place the stories within the context of what was happening in the world beyond the slag heap.

A Postcard View Of Hell One Doughboy S Souvenir Album Of The First World War

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Author : Frank Jacob
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2019-09-30

A Postcard View Of Hell One Doughboy S Souvenir Album Of The First World War written by Frank Jacob and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Social Science categories.

For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka's collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that - in many soldiers' accounts - is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading.As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.

A Preliminary Report On The Mining Districts Of Idaho

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Author : Clifford Pinkney Bowie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919

A Preliminary Report On The Mining Districts Of Idaho written by Clifford Pinkney Bowie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Mines and mineral resources categories.