Monongah The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster 1st Edition by Davitt Mcateer ISBN 1933202297 978-1933202297
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ISBN 10: 1933202297
ISBN 13: 978-1933202297
Author: Davitt Mcateer
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Monongah, West Virginia mine disaster, the West Virginia University Press is honored to carry Davitt McAteer’s definitive history of the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. Monongah documents the events that led to the explosion, which 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 one thousand 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.
Table of contents:
1. J. H. Leonard, Oiler for the No. 6 Mine
2. The Northern Coal Fields of West Virginia
3. Lester Emmitt Trader: Assistant Fire Boss at Age 22
4. The Company Men
5. The Mining Companies: The Early Years
6. The City of Mines
7. Immigrants Wanted
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