Author: David Alan Wolff
Publisher:
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Labor and the Union Pacific Coal Company, 1868 to 1932
Author: David Alan Wolff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Some Facts Relative to the Oldest and Largest Producer of Coal in the Western United States
Author: Union Pacific Coal Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Union Pacific Coal Company
Author: Union Pacific Coal Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Where the Sun Never Shines
Author: Priscilla Long
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Mining West
Author: Richard E. Lingenfelter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This two-volume set cites books, pamphlets, maps, music, directories, and other published materials (excluding materials from technical and popular magazines and newspapers) on the history of mining in the American and Canadian West. Topics covered include prospecting, mining rushes and camps, and mining finance, labor, technology, law, literature, and lore. The initial portion provides general information on mining and metalurgical technology. The subsequent regional sections are subdivided into refined historical studies, raw materials, fictional and poetic treatments, and bibliographical guides to further materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This two-volume set cites books, pamphlets, maps, music, directories, and other published materials (excluding materials from technical and popular magazines and newspapers) on the history of mining in the American and Canadian West. Topics covered include prospecting, mining rushes and camps, and mining finance, labor, technology, law, literature, and lore. The initial portion provides general information on mining and metalurgical technology. The subsequent regional sections are subdivided into refined historical studies, raw materials, fictional and poetic treatments, and bibliographical guides to further materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains
Author: George W. Gill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A book that clarifies the emerging picture of Northwestern Plains prehistory and early history as told by human bones in skeletal and burial records that span thousands of years and a wide geographic expanse, providing important evidence of human existence in this vast region of North America.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A book that clarifies the emerging picture of Northwestern Plains prehistory and early history as told by human bones in skeletal and burial records that span thousands of years and a wide geographic expanse, providing important evidence of human existence in this vast region of North America.
Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Sino-American Relations
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Equality State
Author: Mike Mackey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Safety First
Author: Mark Aldrich
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.