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Category : Mines and mineral resources Canada Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author: ERDA Library
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1360

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1284

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1878

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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Pages : 52

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Author: James Whiteside
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803247529
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.