Writers And Miners

Author : David C. Duke
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813184029

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Writers and Miners by David C. Duke Pdf

Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers—some seeking a muse, others a cause—traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. He examines portrayals of miners from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine to Matewan and The Kentucky Cycle. The most comprehensive study on the subject to date, Writers and Miners investigates the vexed political and creative relationship between activists and artists and those they seek to represent.

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473227279

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Miners in the Sky by Murray Leinster Pdf

Dunne was a crystal miner among the stars until he discovered the biggest strike in space. Drilling through the Rings of Thothmes with a mysterious lady stowaway, the lonely hunter soon realized that every miner in this golden mist was out to get him - and the treasure. Even as bloodshed spreads across the sky, eyes both inhuman and unseen watched, waiting to close in...

Author : Catherine Nolin,Grahame Russell
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781771135634

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Testimonio by Catherine Nolin,Grahame Russell Pdf

What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while those responsible act with near-total impunity. Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry—a staggeringly profitable juggernaut of exploitation, sanctioned and supported every step of the way by the Canadian government. This edited collection calls on Canadians to hold our government and companies fully to account for their role in enabling and profiting from violence in Guatemala. The text stands apart in featuring a series of unflinching testimonios (testimonies) authored by Indigenous community leaders in Guatemala, as well as wide-ranging contributions from investigative journalists, scholars, Lawyers, activists, and documentarians on the ground. As resources are ripped from the earth and communities and environments ripped apart, the act of standing in solidarity and bearing witness—rather than extracting knowledge—becomes more radical than ever.

Author : John Mellor
Publisher : Goodread Biography
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NWU:35556016925539

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The Company Store by John Mellor Pdf

J. B. McLachlan was a fiery, idealistic Scot who came to Canada with a vision of a better world. He settled in Cape Breton, and there he worked in the coalmines beside hundreds of men and boys from all parts of the world. In the first decades of the twentieth century mine owners cared little for safety or working conditions: miners and their families were virtual serfs of the company. As their wages were squeezed lower, mine workers fought back through their union--with J. B. McLachlan at its head. The response of the authorities was fierce. The miners faced soldiers, machine guns, prison sentences, starvation, homelessness. They were betrayed by American union leaders. Throughout, J. B. McLachlan stood firm for his principles and ideals. The Company Store is the story of a remarkable Canadian, and of a little-known part of our industrial past.

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499860191

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Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith Pdf

An action-packed thriller from global bestseller Wilbur Smith "Underground Manager,"he said. There was a long silence and he could hear the man breathing on the other end. "Speak, man, what is it?" "The whole bloody thing has come down,"said the voice. It was husky, rough with fear and dust. "Where are you speaking from?"Rod asked. "They're still in there," said the voice. "They're screaming in there. Under the rock. They're screaming."' Nothing drives men to danger like gold... Rod Ironsides is the honest, expert manager of the successful Sonder Ditch gold mine and its hard-worked miners. But honesty and expertise count for little, when faced with desperate bosses and a crew who'll break every rule to get their own illegal share of the precious metal. Under the command of the obsessive, meticulous Dr Steyner, Rod is forced into greater and greater risks. For if the mine goes down and takes the lives of the men with it, someone stands to make millions -but Rod will be the one who pays

Author : Inc (Corp Authors) Time-Life Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:74080284

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The Miners by Inc (Corp Authors) Time-Life Books Pdf

Author : Bert Lewis Coombes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 0708315631

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These Poor Hands by Bert Lewis Coombes Pdf

Originally published in 1939 this text describes the working life of a typical Welsh miner as well as the author's own experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. It demonstrates B.L. Coombes's desire to offer an accurate account of the lives of miners and their families working in the South Wales coalfields.

Author : Sheldon Currie
Publisher : Wreck Cove, N.S. : Breton Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 1895415055

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The Glace Bay Miners' Museum by Sheldon Currie Pdf

Raised in Reserve Mines, Sheldon Currie teaches literature and writing at Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. His books include 'The Story so Far'.

Author : Ann Lacy,Anne Valley-Fox
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780865348202

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Lost Treasures & Old Mines by Ann Lacy,Anne Valley-Fox Pdf

"Lost Treasures & Old Mines" brims with stories of gold fever, copper ore, and silver mining in the American Southwest.

Author : Dwight Norris
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 1503271692

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Johnny McCarthy by Dwight Norris Pdf

Johnny McCarthy is a third generation coal miner whose father and grandfather died in the coal mines of Ireland. Johnny digs coal for the Stone Mountain Coal Company in Matewan, West Virginia in the early 1920s. He is staunchly devoted to his family and the coal company based on the loyalties his father has taught him. But in W.Va, he faces the challenge of union organizing, workplace violence, and the difficulty of providing enough food and clothing for his family. In addition, he deals on a daily basis with the dangers of the mine, including explosion, cave-ins, darkness, and rats. And don't forget the low pay in scrip along with the company store, the company preacher, the company school, and the company doctor. The coal miner's son is caught up in the historic choices he must make between hopeless servitude and the life-threatening dangers of joining the union. "Johnny McCarthy, A Coal Miner's Son" is the story of one miner's adventure that takes him beyond the Matewan Massacre to finding out who he really is. No dull passages here. This book is raw, gritty, and filled with suspense. Truly hard to put down.

Author : United States. Office of the Administrator, Coal Mine Safety and Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : IND:30000115540878

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Citation and Order Writing Handbook for Coal Mines and Metal and Nonmetal Mines by United States. Office of the Administrator, Coal Mine Safety and Health Pdf

Author : George Ella Lyon
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Miners
ISBN : 0531068536

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Mama is a Miner by George Ella Lyon Pdf

A mother describes her job working as a miner.

Author : Donald Quataert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782387220

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Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert Pdf

The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians—most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes in these large processes. This book examines such major issues through the actual experiences of coal miners in the Ottoman Empire. The encounters of mine workers with state mining officials and private mine operators do not follow the expected patterns of labor-state-capital relations as predicted by the major explanatory paradigms of modernization or dependency. Indeed, as the author clearly shows, few of the outcomes are as predicted. The fate of these miners has much to offer both Ottoman and Middle East specialists as well as scholars of the developing world and, more generally, those interested in the connections between economic development and social and political change.

Author : Simeon Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : HARVARD:HC527H

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Miners' Nystagmus and Its Relation to Position at Work and the Manner of Illumination by Simeon Snell Pdf

Author : Khalehla Litschel
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525516740

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King Coal by Khalehla Litschel Pdf

King Coal presents the rich history of Alberta coal mining, and the people and culture that emerged out of the industry, from the 1870s through to the modern era. King Coal invites the reader to discover Alberta’s coal history, its triumphs and tragedies, and its legacy in the province today. Uniquely, the book’s carefully researched historical sources are augmented by a vision of the era imagined through a fictional account of the author’s coal mining ancestors, as well as a variety of poetry, song lyrics, archival and modern photographs, and appendices that contain maps, charts, and links to multiple museums and historic sites around the province. These features of the book complete a full portrait of miners and their families, presenting how they lived and worked, the innovations they created, the tragedies they endured, and the life cycles experienced in the towns where they lived—including those boom and bust towns that have disappeared from the Canadian landscape. Made to feel like insiders in a different time, readers will emerge from King Coal with an excellent view of the social side of coal mining in Alberta, a time in Canada’s history when Coal was King.