Author: Matt Witt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
Author: Mark A. Bradley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393652548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393652548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.
In Our Blood
Author: Matt Witt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Coal Dust in My Blood
Author: Bill Johnstone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780772646897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The men who worked British Columbia's mines have passed into history. Coal Dust In My Blood is a moving account of one coal miner's life, in plain, evocative language. But this book is much more than a personal memoir. Bill Johnstone's mining career spanned several decades and he worked in a wide variety of positions. His broad insights reveal important aspects of the history of coal mining in BC. 'Many British Columbians could take a chapter from this book and call it their own story. Immigration, the depression years, or most significantly, the life in the mines were experienced by many residents of this province.' - Robert D. Turner, from the Foreword
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780772646897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The men who worked British Columbia's mines have passed into history. Coal Dust In My Blood is a moving account of one coal miner's life, in plain, evocative language. But this book is much more than a personal memoir. Bill Johnstone's mining career spanned several decades and he worked in a wide variety of positions. His broad insights reveal important aspects of the history of coal mining in BC. 'Many British Columbians could take a chapter from this book and call it their own story. Immigration, the depression years, or most significantly, the life in the mines were experienced by many residents of this province.' - Robert D. Turner, from the Foreword
Blood & Coal
Author: Henry George
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Blood on the Coal
Author: Roger David Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889994317
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889994317
Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry
Author: Tim Wright
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136627804
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book examines key aspects of China’s coal industry which illustrate the political economy of China’s economic transformation. It sheds light on the broader issues of China’s transition from socialism to capitalism, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China’s working class.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136627804
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book examines key aspects of China’s coal industry which illustrate the political economy of China’s economic transformation. It sheds light on the broader issues of China’s transition from socialism to capitalism, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China’s working class.
Blood Passion
Author: Scott Martelle
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081354419X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081354419X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.
Coal in My Blood
Author: Fred R. Toothman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961754501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961754501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Blood on the Coal
Author: Ken Cuthbertson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443467928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. Those who made that claim were probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The mine was the proverbial “disaster waiting to happen.” And it did. Springhill was the quintessential one-industry town, whose existence depended on coal, a commodity with a dying market. And yet something far worse was soon to come. On the night of October 23, 1958, a “bump” in the mine—actually a small earthquake—shook the ground beneath the town. Seventy-five miners died and scores more were injured in what remains one of Canada’s worst underground disasters. The lives of the survivors were shattered, and Springhill would never be the same again. In compelling detail, Ken Cuthbertson tells the stories of three of the miners and one of the doctors who cared for them following the disaster. This remarkable book is based on historical documents and interviews, as well as new interviews with the last of the surviving miners and their loved ones. It is a story of heroism, sacrifice and the indomitable strength of the human spirit.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443467928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. Those who made that claim were probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The mine was the proverbial “disaster waiting to happen.” And it did. Springhill was the quintessential one-industry town, whose existence depended on coal, a commodity with a dying market. And yet something far worse was soon to come. On the night of October 23, 1958, a “bump” in the mine—actually a small earthquake—shook the ground beneath the town. Seventy-five miners died and scores more were injured in what remains one of Canada’s worst underground disasters. The lives of the survivors were shattered, and Springhill would never be the same again. In compelling detail, Ken Cuthbertson tells the stories of three of the miners and one of the doctors who cared for them following the disaster. This remarkable book is based on historical documents and interviews, as well as new interviews with the last of the surviving miners and their loved ones. It is a story of heroism, sacrifice and the indomitable strength of the human spirit.
Blood on the Coal
Author: Denise Dent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473512217
Category : Children of coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473512217
Category : Children of coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description