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Book In the Eyes of the Ancestors

Download or read book In the Eyes of the Ancestors written by June Nash and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book There Used to Be Order

Download or read book There Used to Be Order written by Patience Mususa and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In There Used to Be Order, Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), in the mid-1990s. As the copper mines were Zambia’s most important economic asset, the sale of ZCCM was considered a major loss to the country. More crucially, privatization marked the end of a way of life for mine employees and mining communities. Based on three years of ethnographic field research, this book examines life for those living in difficult economic circumstances, and considers the tension between the life they live and the nature of an “extractive area.” This account, unusual in its examination of middle-income decline in Africa, directs us to think of the Copperbelt not only as an extractive locale for copper whose activities are affected by the market, but also as a place where the residents’ engagement with the harsh reality of losing jobs and struggling to earn a living after the withdrawal of welfare is simultaneously changing both the material and social character of the place. Drawing on phenomenological approaches, the book develops a theoretical model of “trying,” which accounts for both Copperbelt residents’ aspirations and efforts.

Book Women in the Mines

Download or read book Women in the Mines written by Marat Moore and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Mines informs, provokes and inspires from first page to last with gripping stories from coalfield women from 1914 to 1994. Early women miners describe handloading coal to help their families survive. The 1970s generation talks openly about sexual harassment, community attitudes, pregnancy, health and safety, racism, aging, and unemployment. The stories demonstrate the strength and resilience of women who accepted the challenge of nontraditional work and the changes in their lives brought by that decision.

Book Beyond the Boundaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Lankton
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1999-05-06
  • ISBN : 9780199761159
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Boundaries written by Larry Lankton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.

Book Canary in the Coal Mine

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Cooke
  • Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 1496446488
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Canary in the Coal Mine written by William Cooke and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future--and exposed a national health crisis. When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America. Confronted with Austin's hidden secrets, Dr. Cooke decided he had to do something about them. In taking up the fight for Austin's people, however, he would have to battle some unanticipated foes: prejudice, political resistance, an entrenched bureaucracy--and the dark despair that threatened to overwhelm his own soul. Canary in the Coal Mine is a gripping account of the transformation of a man and his adopted community, a compelling and ultimately hopeful read in the vein of Hillbilly Elegy, Dreamland, and Educated.

Book Taconite  New Life for Minnesota s Iron Range

Download or read book Taconite New Life for Minnesota s Iron Range written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miracle in the Mine

    Book Details:
  • Author : José Henríquez
  • Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
  • Release : 2011-10-11
  • ISBN : 0310334969
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Miracle in the Mine written by José Henríquez and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 13, 2010, millions of television viewers on five continents literally stopped everything to watch the amazing rescue of 33 men trapped underground in the mine of San José de Copiapó in northern Chile. What had seemed at first a hopeless tragedy later became a triumph of human effort, courage, perseverance, and expertise. For 17 excruciating days no one knew whether any of the miners had survived the collapse of the mine shaft, nor were the surviving miners aware of any rescue attempts. They spent a total of 69 days trapped underground. And it was there, in that frightening cavern, that one man took on the responsibility of encouraging the others and use the tragedy as an opportunity to share his faith. Miracle in the Mine is the story of José Henríquez. The testimony of a man who was no stranger to danger even before he found himself trapped 2,300 feet under the earth in the San José mine. A man who has unequivocally demonstrated his integrity, courage, and moral strength both before, during, and after the mining accident, and who is now using this experience to inspire the world.

Book Cradle to Grave

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Lankton
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1993-02-25
  • ISBN : 019028207X
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book Cradle to Grave written by Larry Lankton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians.

Book The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States

Download or read book The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States written by Daniel Moreau Barringer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insect Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Valentine Riley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Insect Life written by Charles Valentine Riley and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colorado School of Mines Magazine

Download or read book The Colorado School of Mines Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us

Download or read book We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us written by June C. Nash and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.

Book Transactions of the American Institute of Mining  Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers

Download or read book Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers written by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Rudyard Kipling  Life s handicap  being stories of mine own people

Download or read book The Works of Rudyard Kipling Life s handicap being stories of mine own people written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cost of Mining

Download or read book The Cost of Mining written by James Ralph Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: