Author: Dan Bomkamp
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
ISBN: 9781930596320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Relive those great summer days growing up in a small town when fishing, hunting, camping and swimming were the highlights of your day. Author Dan Bomkamp introduces you to his three best friends and takes you back to his younger days when fun was the name of the game.
The Gosey
Author: Dan Bomkamp
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
ISBN: 9781930596320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Relive those great summer days growing up in a small town when fishing, hunting, camping and swimming were the highlights of your day. Author Dan Bomkamp introduces you to his three best friends and takes you back to his younger days when fun was the name of the game.
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
ISBN: 9781930596320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Relive those great summer days growing up in a small town when fishing, hunting, camping and swimming were the highlights of your day. Author Dan Bomkamp introduces you to his three best friends and takes you back to his younger days when fun was the name of the game.
Dirty Mines
Author: John Fitzgerald
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519654878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519654878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Mines and Minerals
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Collapse
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101157828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101157828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.
Dirty Gold
Author: Michael John Bloomfield
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262035782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262035782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Claims and Speculations
Author: Janet Floyd
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826351395
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song. Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places and the distinctive work they generated--the short fictions of the California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada's Comstock Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike. With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry produced a global literature.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826351395
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song. Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places and the distinctive work they generated--the short fictions of the California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada's Comstock Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike. With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry produced a global literature.
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
Department Reports of Pennsylvania
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The United Mine Workers Journal
Author: United Mine Workers of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
When the Roses Bloom
Author: Alfred James Phillips
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1600345352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This wholesome family story begins with the question of whether a white Southern family could adopt their Negro friends' surviving child in the 1940s. Was this the child that was promised to Eunice Miller, or was her out-of-body experience not really a visit to heaven, but only a dream?
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1600345352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This wholesome family story begins with the question of whether a white Southern family could adopt their Negro friends' surviving child in the 1940s. Was this the child that was promised to Eunice Miller, or was her out-of-body experience not really a visit to heaven, but only a dream?