Author: Boris Emmet
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Labor Relations in the Fairmont, West Virginia, Bituminous Coal Field
Author: Boris Emmet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Labor Relations in the Fairmont, West Virginia, Bituminous Coal Field
Author: Boris Emmet
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Case of Bituminous Coal
Author: Walton H. Hamilton, Helen R. Wright
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Black Coal Miners in America
Author: Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor—an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor—an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Coal-mining Safety in the Progressive Period
Author: William Graebner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813113395
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813113395
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Monthly Labor Review
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Publications
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Ramp Hollow
Author: Steven Stoll
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 080909505X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Contemporary ancestors -- Provision grounds -- The Rye Rebellion -- Mountaineers are always free -- Interlude: agrarian twilight -- The captured garden -- Negotiated settlements
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 080909505X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Contemporary ancestors -- Provision grounds -- The Rye Rebellion -- Mountaineers are always free -- Interlude: agrarian twilight -- The captured garden -- Negotiated settlements
Subject Index of Bulletins Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1915-59
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description