Author: Lucius Seymour StorrsPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Rocky Mountain Coal Fields
Author: Lucius Seymour StorrsPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute
Author: Rocky Mountain Coal Mining InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Regulating Danger
Author: James WhitesidePublisher: 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.
Industrializing the Rockies
Author: David A. WolffPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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In "Industrializing the Rockies," David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
The Valley Coal Fields of Virginia
Author: Marius Robinson CampbellPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Selected References on the Geology and Coal Resources of Central and Western Colorado Coal Fields and Regions
Author: Proceedings of the Second Symposium on the Geology of Rocky Mountain Coal, 1977
Author: Helen E. HodgsonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Geology of Rocky Mountain Coal
Author: D. Keith MurrayPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Miners and Management
Author: Mary Van KleeckPublisher:
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Once a Coal Miner
Author: Phyllis SmithPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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