Roughnecks Drillers And Tool Pushers

Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780292786349

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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers by Gerald Lynch Pdf

A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers. Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did—for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider’s view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603142

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:00100977345

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Congressional Oversight of Administrative Agencies (National Labor Relations Board) by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1738 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : MINN:31951D020922863

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Congressional Oversight of Administrative Agencies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers Pdf

Reviews role of independent regulatory agencies in terms of constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. Focuses on the policy making effects of NRLB's rulings and interpretation of labor relations laws.

Author : Bobby D. Weaver
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603442053

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Oilfield Trash by Bobby D. Weaver Pdf

"Oilfield Trash is written in a charming, flowing style that any reader will enjoy....In Weaver's capable hands, the gypsy lives of a generation of young men unfold on the rigorous stage of drilling fields...."---Paul Spellman, author of Spindletop Boom Days --

Author : Jeffrey B. Webb,Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440872150

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Energy in American History by Jeffrey B. Webb,Christopher R. Fee Pdf

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.

Author : Nancy Quam-Wickham,Ben Tyler Elliott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216072003

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A Day in the Life of an American Worker [2 volumes] by Nancy Quam-Wickham,Ben Tyler Elliott Pdf

This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States. A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern "space age"—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States. Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

Author : George Getschow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477327890

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Pastures of the Empty Page by George Getschow Pdf

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life. When he died in 2021, Larry McMurtry was one of America’s most revered writers. The author of treasured novels such as Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, and coauthor of the screenplays for Brokeback Mountain and Streets of Laredo, McMurtry created unforgettable characters and landscapes largely drawn from his life growing up on the family’s hardscrabble ranch outside his hometown of Archer City, Texas. Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor the man and his impact on American letters. Paulette Jiles, Stephen Harrigan, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Lawrence Wright take up McMurtry’s piercing and poetic vision—an elegiac literature of place that demolished old myths of cowboy culture and created new ones. Screenwriting partner Diana Ossana reflects on their thirty-year book and screenwriting partnership; other contributors explore McMurtry’s reading habits and his passion for bookselling. And brother Charlie McMurtry shares memories of their childhood on the ranch. In contrast to his curmudgeonly persona, Larry McMurtry emerges as a trustworthy friend and supportive mentor. McMurtry was famously self-deprecating, but as his admirers attest, this self-described “minor regional writer” was an artist for the ages.

Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1574410369

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Between the Cracks of History by Francis Edward Abernethy Pdf

Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015074886618

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Bonar Alexander Gow
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552380673

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Roughnecks, Rock Bits and Rigs by Bonar Alexander Gow Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution of the component aspects of drilling technology in Alberta, from the evolution of power sources and drill bit designs to the composition of drilling muds and the use of fishing tools. Included are explanations of the costs and risks of oil well drilling and of the larger issue of industrial technology -- how it evolves and under what conditions. The author draws extensively from original source material such as interviews, photographs, and appendices from both the Glenbow Archives and the Devon-Leduc Petroleum Hall of Fame and Interpretive Ce.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038769025

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2024 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104266830

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009866166

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The Effect of Imports on Employment by United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee To Investigate Causes of Unemployment in Certain Industries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : MINN:31951D02113388V

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Causes of Unemployment in the Coal and Other Specified Industries by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee To Investigate Causes of Unemployment in Certain Industries Pdf

Investigates impact of oil imports on employment in domestic coal and oil industries.