Download or read book The Bunkhouse Man written by Edmund W. Bradwin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1972-12-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology, it is still the best description of what it was like to be a working man in Canada before the First World War. E.W. Bradwin drew on his own experience as an instructor for Frontier College, working alongside his students during the day and teaching at night, to present this graphic portrait of life in the camps from 1903 to 1914. No detached observer, Bradwin played a vigorous role trying to improve the lot of the men—practicing the sociology of engagement advocated by radical sociologists today. Work camps have existed in Canada from early pioneer times to the 1970s and are unlikely to disappear. In the years of Bradwin’s study there were as many as 3,000 large camps employing 200,000 men, 5 per cent of the male labour force. Like the settling of the prairies, these camps are a characteristic Canadian phenomenon, but they have never drawn comparable attention. The republication of The Bunkhouse Man, with an introduction by Jean Burnet, makes available once more a work essential to the exploration of Canada’s history and social structure.
Download or read book The Boys in the Bunkhouse written by Dan Barry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives. In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than thirty years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse—until state social workers, local journalists, and one tenacious labor lawyer helped these men achieve freedom. Drawing on exhaustive interviews, Dan Barry dives deeply into the lives of the men, recording their memories of suffering, loneliness and fleeting joy, as well as the undying hope they maintained despite their traumatic circumstances. Barry explores how a small Iowa town remained oblivious to the plight of these men, analyzes the many causes for such profound and chronic negligence, and lays out the impact of the men’s dramatic court case, which has spurred advocates—including President Obama—to push for just pay and improved working conditions for people living with disabilities. A luminous work of social justice, told with compassion and compelling detail, The Boys in the Bunkhouse is more than just inspired storytelling. It is a clarion call for a vigilance that ensures inclusion and dignity for all.
Download or read book The Bunkhouse Man written by Chʻang-wei Chʻiu and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bunkhouse Man written by Edmund William Bradwin and published by Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, 296. This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on the lives of workers, known as bunkhouse men, who worked for the National Transcontinental Railway in Canada during the early 1900's. Examines issues such as the work, pay, housing, and medical care.
Download or read book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Mice and Men es una novela escrita por el autor John Steinbeck. Publicado en 1937, cuenta la historia de George Milton y Lennie Small, dos trabajadores desplazados del rancho migratorio, que se mudan de un lugar a otro en California en busca de nuevas oportunidades de trabajo durante la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos.
Download or read book Men in the Land written by J.P. Lucas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men in the Land is a compilation of stories that deal with real men. Men and their immovable foundations, their women, facing difficult and deadly circumstances, who understand the foundational basis of morality and decency, love of family, friends, and country. These men must deal with immorality, greed, and danger decisively, and sometimes violently, while maintaining their own integrity. Each man, in real life, must face similar decisions for himself. There are those who would destroy us. Men in the Land are the bulwark against destruction. Kender, Stepp, Openshaw, and Trapper White, their neighbors and friends, each, in their own way, are men who inspire us to fight, against all odds, for that which is rightfully ours. They irreversibly influence the world around them. Men in the Land are monuments to positive values, hard won, and honest achievement. They stand for something. They are granite, bigger than life, strong, and immovable. Our nation is today because there were Men in the Land.
Download or read book Journey Of The Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoke Jensen is on the trail to Montana to rescue a relative from a range war in this gritty Western adventure by the USA Today bestselling author. Smoke Jensen couldn't have cared less that a range war had erupted in Montana. But his cousin Fae was stuck right in the middle of a hundred-gun showdown that was about to explode in bullets and blood. When Smoke strapped on his Colts and went to Fae's aid, he knew the deck was stacked against him. Even when he was joined by four old friends, it looked like it was going to be his final stand. But if anyone could buck the odds, it was Smoke Jensen, the last mountain man.
Download or read book Poor Man s Medicine written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POOR MANS MEDICINE is the third volume of what can be called The Notational Trilogyacerbic views, interpretations and opinions about contemporary human existence, society, the environment, culture, and everything else. These pieces are sometimes wistful thoughts of things past, or often unease about the future that we are being dragged into. About previous books in this trilogy, readers have said they have been informed, amused andoftenoutraged! These reactions will continue, and, as before, the reader WILL NOT BE BORED!
Download or read book A Man Called Montague written by John Hardy Morris and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Montague family moved west with a small wagon train from Tennessee after the Civil War. After his family is massacred and his younger brother was captured by Comanches, John Montague is raised by a man on the frontier. He learns hunting, tracking, and self-defense skills. He becomes proficient with weapons. He moves farther west always accompanied by his black stallion and faithful dog, where he works as an army scout, which changes his vengeful attitude about Indians. He gets a job as a deputy sheriff and tracks down a vicious killer. He finally works as a cowboy on a large Texas ranch where, as a trail boss, he leads a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City facing weather, rustlers, killers, and gunfighters. Over the years, he runs into his brother a couple of times. The brother is now a Comanche warrior with a hatred for Whites. John tries desperately to restore their relationship. At the ranch, he also meets the love of his life.
Download or read book Homes for Workmen written by Southern Pine Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestselling author: A Colorado cattleman wages all-out war on a gang of ruthless rustlers . . . The kind of man for whom God created the gun, Smoke Jensen stands as a force of will in the brutal, lawless west . . . Nothing will stand in his way Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants—even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperados back to hell.
Download or read book The Bunkhouse Boys from the Lazy Daisy Ranch written by Duane Bryers and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law Of The Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling series: Stranded in the middle of a brutal range war, an innocent man may have no choice but to take sides . . . Smoke Jensen sat in a cave and boiled the last of his coffee. He figured he was in Idaho—somewhere south of Montpelier—but he was certain about only two things: he was cold and he was being hunted by a small army of men. Smoke knew why he was cold—it was winter. He just didn't have a clear idea of why anyone was after him. He was soon to find out that he'd unwittingly ridden into the middle of the fiercest range war in years. Now he had to either choose sides or return home across the back of a horse. Smoke had never taken kindly to being bullied . . . so when Jud Vale and his cutthroat gang started pushing him around, Smoke Jensen just pushed right back . . .
Download or read book Columbia University Studies in the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trek of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner. Wanted: Smoke Jensen. Dead or alive. It didn't matter that the warrant was old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges—A Texas bounty hunter wants that $10,000 reward. With time running out and the life of Smoke’s woman hanging in the balance, this hunter becomes the hunted . . . and Smoke’ll see to it that this matter gets settled once and for all . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
Download or read book The Two gun Man written by Charles Alden Seltzer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada s Rural Majority written by R.W. Sandwell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
