Download or read book Harlan Miners Speak written by Members of the National Committee for the Defense and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s. This edition of Harlan Miners Speak, with a new introduction by noted historian John C. Hennen, offers readers an in-depth look at a pivotal crisis in the complex history of this controversial form of energy production.

Download or read book Harlan Miners Speak written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, remains today a vivid record of the plight of coal miners in eastern Kentucky. Led by prominent left-leaning writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931 to examine the situation of the miners and their families.

Download or read book Hell in Harlan written by George J. Titler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From the miners doublehouse written by Karen Bescherer Metheny and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From the Miners’ Doublehouse, archaeologist Karen Metheny uses an interpretive, contextual approach to examine the physical and cultural landscape of the now-abandoned coal-mining town of Helvetia in western Pennsylvania. The author weaves together documentary sources, oral history, and archaeological evidence to reveal the ways in which mine workers constructed a sense of community in this company town from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. As the first archaeological and historical study of a coal company town that focuses upon the strategies its residents used to manipulate landscape and material culture to achieve personal and social goals, From the Miners’ Doublehouse makes a significant contribution to historical and industrial archaeology. This book will be of interest to scholars in industrial and environmental history, geography, and industrial sociology. It will also appeal to general readers interested in coal’s history and the Appalachian coal-mining region.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Kentucky Mining Institute written by Kentucky Mining Institute (Founded 1940) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Coal Mines of the Monongahela River Region written by J. Sutton Wall and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conditions in Coal Fields in Harlan and Bell Counties Kentucky written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Walker County Coal Mines written by Iris Singleton McAvoy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of black rocks that glow along Lost Creek transformed Walker County. Settlers began to open wagon mines and ship coal in barges along the Warrior River. The railroad soon followed, which brought in corporations and big mining camps. Every town is littered with stories, from Dora's Uniontown to the union wars in Carbon Hill to the Gorgas mining experiment. Oakman's Corona camp housed the county's very first hospital, while Sipsey and Empire had a Harvard-educated teacher. Progress was made, largely due to coal. In Images of America: Walker County Coal Mines, readers will learn about the people and the industry that makes Walker County special.

Download or read book Scrip written by Charles Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, the L&N pushed its railroad into remote Harlan County, Kentucky, opening up access to billions of tons of coal, the fuel that ran everything during the Industrial Revolution. Coal did it all, from coke for the steel mills, to power for the new national electrical grid, and coal gas for the street lights. The country's largest corporations and richest men rushed in-- Ford Motor Company, US Steel, Chicago Edison, International Harvester, Peabody Energy, the Mellons, the Carnegies, bringing with them a system they had perfected: scrip. What if you didn't have to pay your workers? Not really, not in cash? What if you could make your own currency and make it worth whatever you wanted it to be? Scrip was a system designed to pay miners in pinto beans and corn meal from the company store, and make billions in profits for the coal companies. The fragments of history and the sheer volume of scrip documented in these pages from just one small Kentucky county shows how pervasive this system became and how it impoverished the workers they left behind.

Download or read book The Coal Industry in Kentucky written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phase I Archaeological Survey of Selected Areas Within Mines of Spain Recreation Area Dubuque County Iowa written by Fred A. Finney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region written by John Stuart Richards and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Coal Regions of Pennsylvania written by A. M. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: