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Book Dirty Mines

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fitzgerald
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-02-13
  • ISBN : 9781519654878
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Dirty Mines written by John Fitzgerald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIRTY MINES is a story about coal mining in Pennsylvania. For the first time many of the jobs performed by boys, as young as 8 years old, are described in detail. Cesar D'Angelo was 10 when his father was killed in the mines. Cesar, the oldest boy in his family, had to take his father's place working for the coal company. His first job was working high up in the dangerous coal breakers. At the age of 12 he went down into the blackish, coal dusted mines to begin his long mining career. His first job was sitting in the dark alone for 10 to 12 hours a day as a door keeper. Later he became a spragger, mule driver, and had various other jobs until becoming a lifetime coal miner. DIRTY MINES also addresses the rich history of this era; including the miscarriage of justice towards the Molly Maguires in their fight for union rights and the environmental disaster at the Knox Coal company that ended coal mining in North Eastern Pennsylvania. This is a family story about the last generation of Scranton coal miners. It is a fascinating and warm narrative of sacrifice, humor, and love. A revealing story about a forgotten way of life in difficult times, with very little pay in horrible working conditions. It's an anecdotal story of courage and tenacity of poor deprived coal miners that struggled to make a better life for their children. Their historic sacrifices are being passed on to a new generation, so their unique heritage will never be forgotten.

Book Dirty Gold

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  • Author : Michael John Bloomfield
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0262035782
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Dirty Gold written by Michael John Bloomfield and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has funded wars. And consumers buy wedding rings and gold chains not knowing about any of this. In Dirty Gold, Michael Bloomfield shows what happened when Earthworks, a small Washington-based NGO, launched a campaign for ethically sourced gold in the consumer jewelry market, targeting Tiffany and other major firms. The unfolding of the campaign and its effect on the jewelry industry offer a lesson in the growing influence of business in global environmental politics. Earthworks planned a “shame” campaign, aimed at the companies' brands and reputations, betting that firms like Tiffany would not want to be associated with pollution, violence, and exploitation. As it happened, Tiffany contacted Earthworks before they could launch the campaign; the company was already looking for partners in finding ethically sourced gold. Bloomfield examines the responses of three companies to “No Dirty Gold” activism: Tiffany, Wal-Mart, and Brilliant Earth, a small company selling ethical jewelry. He finds they offer a case study in how firms respond to activist pressure and what happens when businesses participate in such private governance schemes as the “Golden Rules” and the “Conflict-Free Gold Standard.” Taking a firm-level view, Bloomfield examines the different opportunities for and constraints on corporate political mobilization within the industry.

Book Mines and Minerals

Download or read book Mines and Minerals written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dirty Gold

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  • Author : Jay Weaver
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 1541762916
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Dirty Gold written by Jay Weaver and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it—until it all came crashing down. In March of 2017, a team of federal agents arrested Juan Pablo Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato Rodriguez, or as they came to be known, "the three amigos." The trio—first identified publicly by the authors of this book—had built a $3.6 billion dollar business in metals trading, mostly illegal Peruvian gold mined in the rain forest. Their arrest and subsequent prosecution laid bare more than a scheme between a few corrupt traders. Dirty Gold lifts the veil on a massive and very illegal international business that is more lucrative than trafficking cocaine, and often just as dangerous. As this award-winning team of current and former Miami Herald reporters shows, illegal gold mines have become a haven for Latin American drug money. The gold is sold to metals traders, and ultimately to scores of unwitting Americans in their jewelry and phones. By following the trail of these three traders, Dirty Gold leads us into a sprawling criminal underworld that has never before been in full view.

Book Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 944 pages

Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Works

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  • Author : Richard Savage
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1777
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Works written by Richard Savage and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Survey

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1054 pages

Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department Reports of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Department Reports of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

Download or read book Radiation Exposure Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wash and Change Houses at American Mines

Download or read book Wash and Change Houses at American Mines written by Daniel Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ainslee s

Download or read book Ainslee s written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Range Dwellers

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  • Author : B. M. Bower
  • Publisher : The Floating Press
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 177545309X
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Range Dwellers written by B. M. Bower and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early writer of Westerns Bertha Muzzy Bower was one of the most prominent female contributors to the early era of the genre. The Range Dwellers adds an interesting perspective to the traditional Western narrative arc, including a spunky female protagonist.

Book Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region

Download or read book Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region written by John Stuart Richards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 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.

Book Miscellaneous Accidents in Mines

Download or read book Miscellaneous Accidents in Mines written by Arthur Robert Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mining and Scientific Press

Download or read book Mining and Scientific Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Standard Recommended Practice for Drainage of Coal Mines  M6 1 1955  UDC 622 5

Download or read book American Standard Recommended Practice for Drainage of Coal Mines M6 1 1955 UDC 622 5 written by American Standards Association and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: