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The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia
Author | : William Purviance Tams (Jr.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105041778759 |
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Life Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields
Author | : David Corbin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1940425794 |
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Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin.
Life in a West Virginia Coal Field
Author | : American Constitutional Association (Charleston, W. Va.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004051622 |
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The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia
Author | : William Purviance Tams (Jr.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105110184236 |
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"The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia is much more than a brief history of one of West Virginia's most productive coal regions. Written by a pioneer operator who served in leadership positions in the Winding Gulf Coal Operators Association. The Smokeless Operators Association, the National Coal Association and the Southern Coal Operators Association, theis [this] little book constitutes a memoir of a man and a generation that shaped our history. Tams's description of the events, companies, and personalities that built the coal industry in the New River and Winding Gulf regions fills an important gap in our understanding of that volatile time."--Ronald D. Eller, from the Introduction (on back cover).
West Virginia Coal Fields
Author | : United States. Congress Senate. Committee on Education and Labor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105024402955 |
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The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia
Author | : William Purviance Tams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
ISBN | : OCLC:48434044 |
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills
Author | : James Green |
Publsiher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780802192097 |
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“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Bloodletting in Appalachia
Author | : Howard Burton Lee |
Publsiher | : West Virginia University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : WISC:89058504218 |
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