Dirty Mines

Author : John Fitzgerald
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519654871

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Dirty Mines by John Fitzgerald Pdf

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.

Author : Eyal Press
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374714437

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Dirty Work by Eyal Press Pdf

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color. Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing society’s dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America.

Author : Daniel Harrington,J. H. East
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : UOM:39015077577404

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Wash and Change Houses at American Mines by Daniel Harrington,J. H. East Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU00917761

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Technical Paper - Bureau of Mines by United States. Bureau of Mines Pdf

Author : Filip Palda
Publisher : Cooper-Wolfling
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780987788047

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The Apprentice Economist by Filip Palda Pdf

When faced with material crises governments do not call upon historians, anthropologists, political scholars, or psychologists. They call on economists. These have developed the most coherent and convincing description of how society organizes itself through a system of accounting amenable to precise analysis. Mastering this analysis is the challenge of the apprentice economist. Learn to become a master from Filip Palda, who earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. Here is what Nobel Prize winners have said about Palda's previous books: "Interesting and well written." Gary S. Becker. Nobel Prize in economics 1992. "Palda offers a novel and interesting perspective." James M. Buchanan. Nobel Prize in economics 1987.

Author : Michael John Bloomfield
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262536004

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Dirty Gold by Michael John Bloomfield Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government liability
ISBN : PURD:32754077955502

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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations Pdf

Author : Jay Weaver,Nicholas Nehamas,Jim Wyss,Kyra Gurney
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781529345322

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Dirty Gold by Jay Weaver,Nicholas Nehamas,Jim Wyss,Kyra Gurney Pdf

An astonishing read -- full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland Crackles along ... they deserve credit for exposing the dark underbelly of the jewellery industry and giving us another glimpse into the real cost of the global obsession with gold - Spectator __________ All that glitters is not gold. Gold is the new cocaine - and it's just as lucrative, dangerous, and destructive. __________ Dirty Gold is a searing expose on the booming gold mining industry and destruction on the land and people of Latin America. It looks closely at a small US firm in Miami that helped transform the city into the nation's No.1 importer of gold into the United States. The book follows the meteoric rise and fall of a group of drug traders known as 'the three amigos' who laundered narco money through gold illegally brought into the US and raked in millions before they were caught. Whilst they were making their millions, the humanitarian situation in Colombia, Peru, and many other countries deteriorated dramatically.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.),Charles Caldwell Hawley,Raymond C. Robeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Fertilizers
ISBN : OSU:32435022087225

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Geological Survey Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.),Charles Caldwell Hawley,Raymond C. Robeck Pdf

A study of the stratigraphy, structure, alteration, and uraniferous deposits in sedimentary rocks, with emphasis on the Chinle Formation.

Author : Mr Arthur McIvor,Mr Ronald Johnston
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479611

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Miners' Lung by Mr Arthur McIvor,Mr Ronald Johnston Pdf

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general. The authors examine the prevalent diseases, notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis, and evaluate the roles of key players such as the doctors, management and employers, the state and the trade unions. Throughout the book, the integration of oral testimony helps to elucidate the attitudes of workers and victims of disease, their 'machismo' work culture and socialisation to very high levels of risk on the job, as well as how and why ideas and health mentalities changed over time. This research, taken together with extensive archive material, provides a unique perspective on the nature of work, industrial relations, the meaning of masculinity in the workplace and the wider social impact of industrial disease, disability and death. The effects of contracting dust disease are shown to result invariably in seriously prescribed lifestyles and encroaching isolation. The book will appeal to those working on the history of medicine, industrial relations, social history and business history as well as labour history.

Author : Charles Howard Shinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5ATJ

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The Story of the Mine as Illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada by Charles Howard Shinn Pdf

Author : Michael John Bloomfield
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262035781

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Dirty Gold by Michael John Bloomfield Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Workers' compensation
ISBN : UOM:39015078635045

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National Workers' Compensation Standards Act, 1974 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor Pdf

Author : Amanda Parise-Peterson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543500400

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Shetland Ponies by Amanda Parise-Peterson Pdf

The Shetland pony makes up for its small size with strength. In the past, Shetland ponies pulled heavy carts overloaded with coal and peat. Today, the ponies show their strength and talent in harness and jumping competitions. Learn how the Shetland pony went from a pit pony of the mines to a faithful friend of both children and adults.

Author : John F. Holm
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466948266

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The Dirty Boots by John F. Holm Pdf

It is 1966, when a nineteen-year-old boy from Three Rivers, Michigan, follows family tradition by enlisting in the United States Navy. A plan which he thinks will guarantee an uneventfful tour of duty aboard a US naval ship goes awry when he is deposited in the middle of a war zone in South Vietnam. For the next gruelling year, he performs the duties of a fleet marine force medic, caring for wounded and dying American marines. Dubbed Doc John by his comrades, he soon becomes entrenched in a strange, dangerous world, where he becomes both witness and reluctant warrior. Whether he is patching up wounded comrades or placing Band-Aids on scrapes of native children, young Doc John somehow manages to do an impossible job, even as the world is falling down around him. He not only learns the sad lessons of war, but survives them and finds himself in the process. These are the experiences of a different kind of soldier, who manages to traverse a minefield of emotional upheaval and can still tell his stories with honesty and self-deprecating humor, exemplyfying the resiliency of the human spirit.