Download or read book Coal Miners and Mountaineers written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miners Millhands and Mountaineers written by Ronald D. Eller and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.
Download or read book Mountaineers are Always Free written by Joyce Barry and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil Is Here in These Hills written by James Green and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Download or read book The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia written by William Purviance Tams (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia written by Tams, William Purviance Tams and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil is Here in These Hills written by James R. Green and published by Atlantic Monthly Press Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated - Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated - Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the labor struggle of 50,000 West Virginia coal miners, whose fight for unionization and civil rights in the late 1800s led to violent skirmishes and open armed conflict. Illustrations. Map(s).
Download or read book Light on the Hill written by Ronald E. George, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of hope from the mountains of West Virginia. This is a collection of short stories from a coal miner turned preacher. Go with the author over the hill and through the woods of the Light of the world. The Light is shining for you through this work of love.
Download or read book Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films written by Jerry Wayne Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged chronologically, this reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, trade paper reviews of 476 films about moonshining, feuding, coal mining, mountain love triangles, and many other topics. Also provided are studio, date of release, and length.
Download or read book Daughters of the Mountain written by Suzanne E. Tallichet and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. Tallichet's work goes beyond anecdotal evidence to provide complex and penetrating analyses of qualitative data. Based on in-depth interviews with female miners, Tallichet explores several key topics, including social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation. She also explores the ways in which women adapt to mining culture, developing strategies for both resistance and accommodation to an overwhelmingly male-dominated world.
Download or read book Mountaineers are Always Free written by Paul C. Metcalf and published by Bamberger. This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountaineers and Rangers written by Shelley Smith Mastran and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uneven Ground written by Ronald D. Eller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII. Appalachia has played a complex role in the unfolding of American history. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of material production and technology decried what they saw as a the isolation and backwardness of the region and sought to “uplift” its people through education and industrialization. In Uneven Ground, Ronald D. Eller examines the politics of development in Appalachia while exploring the idea of progress as it has evolved in America. “Passionate, clear, concise, and at times profound,” this volume demonstrates that Appalachia's struggle to overcome poverty, to live in harmony with the land, and to respect the value of community is a truly American story (Chad Berry, author of Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles). Winner of the Appalachian Studies Association’s Weatherford Award and the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Award
Download or read book We be Here when the Morning Comes written by Bryan Woolley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We be here when the morning comes is a book about people of courage and dignity striving to attain a measure of control over their lives and destinies. It is also a book about Appalachia and about the American labor movement. It describes, from the point of view of the striking mountaineers, the thirteen-month strike at the Brookside and Highsplint coal mines in Harlan County, Kentucky--a strike marked by sporadic violence, controversial court orders, arrests of miners' wives, the death of one striker, and the threat of open warfare between union supporters and "scabs." Labor troubles are nothing new to Harlan County. Clashes between coal companies and striking miners in the 1930s and 1940s, during the formative years of the United Mine Workers of America under John L. Lewis, had earned it the epithet "Bloody Harlan." Memories of those troubled years were still fresh for many of the miners who voted in 1973 to come under the UMWA national contract. Eastover Mining Company's refusal to sign and its determination to keep the mines running with non-UMWA labor set the stage for the lengthy confrontation that divided communities, even families. The "mainest" issue in the strike, as far as the miners were concerned, was safety in the mines. They insisted on their right to shut down a mine if unsafe conditions existed, a demand that the operators found particularly distasteful. Writer Bryan Woolley and photographer Fred Reid lived with a miner's family during the last weeks of the strike in August 1974--weeks that saw one miner shot and killed, the threat of further violence, the final capitulation of the company, and the reaction of the miners to signing of the contract. With tape recorder and camera they explored the feelings of the participants about their jobs, their community, and their lives.--Jacket flap.
Download or read book Coal Class and Color written by Joe William Trotter and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reckoning at Eagle Creek written by Jeff Biggers and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his familys nearly 200 - year - old hillside homestead that has been strip - mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so' he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage' but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience; the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia' serving as an expos of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.
Download or read book African American Miners and Migrants written by Thomas E. Wagner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities.
