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 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 The Coal Industry in Kentucky written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Coal Resources of the Upper Cumberland District Kentucky written by Russell A. Brant and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coal Resources of the Hazard District Kentucky written by Russell A. Brant and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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: