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Growing Up In Coal Country
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Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1996
Growing Up In Coal Country written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Growing Up In Coal Country
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Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1999-09-01
Growing Up In Coal Country written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In Coal Country
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Author : Judith Hendershot
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1992-08-01
In Coal Country written by Judith Hendershot and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-01 with Coal mines and mining categories.
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
In Coal Country
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Author : Judith Hendershot
language : en
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Release Date : 1992
In Coal Country written by Judith Hendershot and has been published by Dragonfly Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
Early Coal Mining In The Anthracite Region
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Author : John Stuart Richards
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2002
Early Coal Mining In The Anthracite Region written by John Stuart Richards and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.
Coal Country
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Author : Shirley Stewart Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Coal Country written by Shirley Stewart Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral histories.
Heat And Light
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Author : Jennifer Haigh
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Heat And Light written by Jennifer Haigh and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Fiction categories.
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
Coal Country
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Author : Ewan Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Coal Country written by Ewan Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Coal mines and mining categories.
The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland's last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Villages and towns across the densely populated Central Belt owe their existence to coal mining's expansion during the nineteenth century and its maturation in the twentieth. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had profound implications for what it meant to be a worker, a Scot and a resident of an industrial settlement. Coal Country presents the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. It draws on archival research using records from UK government, the nationalized coal industry and trade unions, as well as the words and memories of former miners, their wives and children that were collected in an extensive oral history project. Deindustrialization progressed as a slow but powerful march across the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, big changes in cultural identities are explained as the outcome of long-term economic developments. The oral testimonies bring to life transformations in gender relations and distinct generational workplaces experiences. This book argues that major alterations to the politics of class and nationhood have their origins in deindustrialization. The adverse effects of UK government policy, and centralization in the nationalized coal industry, encouraged miners and their trade union to voice their grievances in the language of Scottish national sovereignty. These efforts established a distinctive Scottish national coalfield community and laid the foundations for a devolved Scottish Parliament. Coal Country explains the deep roots of economic changes and their political reverberations, which continue to be felt as we debate another major change in energy sources during the 2020s.
Growing Up Hard In Harlan County
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Author : G. C. Jones
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2013-07-24
Growing Up Hard In Harlan County written by G. C. Jones and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This classic memoir is “an absorbing tale” of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post). G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history. “An absorbing tale told in the vernacular language of the teamsters, farmers and miners in rural, mountainous Kentucky in the early decades of this century. The narrative flows with the symmetry that comes naturally to the accomplished storyteller.” —TheWashington Post “Draws the reader into a sometimes frightening world of survival.” —Lexington Herald-Leader “He bears witness to Harlan County—first as a community of self-sufficient farmers, then as a mining area and finally in the 1930s as ‘bloody Harlan’ . . . Mr. Jones celebrates horses and mules, the bounty of the hillside farms and woods and the rough ingenuity, honor and sweetness of the mountain people.” —The New York Times “Jones shows all of us that fierce determination, lived day by day, can lead to a satisfying life, even though it might be hard.” —Kentucky Monthly
Kids On Strike
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Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1999
Kids On Strike written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.