كتاب
Monongah: the tragic story of the worst industrial accident in U.S. history
العنوان: | Monongah: the tragic story of the worst industrial accident in U.S. history |
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المؤلفون: | McAteer, J. Davitt. |
بيانات النشر: | Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2014. Second edition. |
سنة النشر: | 2014 |
وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
سلاسل: | West Virginia and Appalachia |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), HISTORY / United States / 20th Century., Mine safety -- Law and legislation -- History., Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- 20th century., Coal mine accidents -- West Virginia., Mine explosions -- West Virginia., Monongah Mines Disaster, Monongah, W. Va., 1907. |
جغرافية الموضوع: | Marion County (W. Va.) -- History -- 20th century. |
الوصف: | "An in-depth history of the worst industrial accident in US history. Monongah documents the events which led to the explosion that claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907. Nearly thirty years of exhaustive research have led McAteer to the conclusion that close to 500 men and boys--many of them immigrants--lost their lives that day, leaving hundreds of women widowed and more than 1,000 children orphaned. McAteer delves deeply into the personalities, economic forces, and social landscape of the mining communities of north central West Virginia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tragedy at Monongah led to a greater awareness of industrial working conditions, and ultimately to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, which Davitt McAteer helped to enact"-- |
Original Identifier: | ocn885456085 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
اللغة: | English |
ردمك: | 978-1-938228-97-1 1-938228-97-9 |
حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014325847.8 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
ردمك: | 9781938228971 1938228979 |
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