Author: Gary Jackson Tucker
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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"Governor William E. Glasscock and Progressive Politics in West Virginia recounts the life and work of West Virginia's thirteenth governor. Born during the Civil War, Glasscock witnessed a country torn by sectional, fratricidal war become a powerful industrial nation by the turn of the twentieth century. Author Gary Jackson Tucker demonstrates how Glasscock, along with others during the Progressive Era, railed against large and powerful political and economic machines to enact legislation protecting free and fair elections, just taxation, regulation of public utilities, and workmen's compensation laws." -- Book Jacket.
Governor William E. Glasscock and Progressive Politics in West Virginia
Author: Gary Jackson Tucker
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"Governor William E. Glasscock and Progressive Politics in West Virginia recounts the life and work of West Virginia's thirteenth governor. Born during the Civil War, Glasscock witnessed a country torn by sectional, fratricidal war become a powerful industrial nation by the turn of the twentieth century. Author Gary Jackson Tucker demonstrates how Glasscock, along with others during the Progressive Era, railed against large and powerful political and economic machines to enact legislation protecting free and fair elections, just taxation, regulation of public utilities, and workmen's compensation laws." -- Book Jacket.
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"Governor William E. Glasscock and Progressive Politics in West Virginia recounts the life and work of West Virginia's thirteenth governor. Born during the Civil War, Glasscock witnessed a country torn by sectional, fratricidal war become a powerful industrial nation by the turn of the twentieth century. Author Gary Jackson Tucker demonstrates how Glasscock, along with others during the Progressive Era, railed against large and powerful political and economic machines to enact legislation protecting free and fair elections, just taxation, regulation of public utilities, and workmen's compensation laws." -- Book Jacket.
Progressive Governors in the Border States
Author: Nicholas C. Burckel
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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Governor's Message ...
Author: West Virginia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1904
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Languages : en
Pages : 1904
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Science
Author: John Michels (Journalist)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period
Author: William Graebner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society. A series of mine disasters in December 1907 (including one in Monongah, West Virginia, which took a toll of 361 lives) shook the public, at least temporarily, out of its lethargy. In this award-winning study, author William Graebner traces the development of mine safety reform in the years immediately following these tragic events. Reform activities during the Progressive period centered on the Bureau of Mines and an effort to obtain uniform state legislation; the effect of each was minimal. Mr. Graebner concludes that these idealistic solutions of the time were at once the great hope and the great failure of the Progressive coal-mining safety movement.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society. A series of mine disasters in December 1907 (including one in Monongah, West Virginia, which took a toll of 361 lives) shook the public, at least temporarily, out of its lethargy. In this award-winning study, author William Graebner traces the development of mine safety reform in the years immediately following these tragic events. Reform activities during the Progressive period centered on the Bureau of Mines and an effort to obtain uniform state legislation; the effect of each was minimal. Mr. Graebner concludes that these idealistic solutions of the time were at once the great hope and the great failure of the Progressive coal-mining safety movement.
Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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Energy in American History
Author: Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1315
Book Description
Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics. Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1315
Book Description
Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics. Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.
Munsey's Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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The Encyclopedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
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