Blocton: The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town (review)

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-61
Author(s):  
Catherine Gyllerstrom
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
History Of

Heavy metals in dusts from commercial and residential areas of Jharia coal mining town

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Rout ◽  
R. Ebhin Masto ◽  
P. K. Padhy ◽  
L. C. Ram ◽  
Joshy George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Jharia Coal

“Re-Emergence” of Silicosis and Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis in Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Beris Penrose
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Disease Onset ◽  
Latency Period ◽  
Dust Exposure ◽  
Long Latency ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis ◽  
Coal Workers

Some reporters, politicians, and doctors have described current cases as a “re-emergence” of these diseases, based on the notion that they had been eliminated. However, silicosis persisted in centuries-old industries like sandblasting and stonemasonry and coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) continued in coal mining. Until recently, their presence was obscured by a combination of factors such as misdiagnosis, especially if there was a history of smoking; the failure to follow up workers thought to have silicosis or CWP; the long latency period between dust exposure and disease onset that can conceal the link between the two; and the lack of data collection that may have revealed their presence. As the recent Queensland government inquiry into CWP noted, current cases are more accurately a reidentification.

scholarly journals Colliery Deputies in the British Coal Industry Before Nationalization

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ackers
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
National Union ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Union History

SummaryThis article challenges the militant and industrial unionist version of British coal mining trade union history, surrounding the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the National Union of Mineworkers, by considering, for the first time, the case of the colliery deputies' trade union. Their national Federation was formed in 1910, and aimed to represent the three branches of coal mining supervisory management: the deputy (or fireman, or examiner), overman and shotfirer. First, the article discusses the treatment of moderate and craft traditions in British coal mining historiography. Second, it shows how the position of deputy was defined by changes in the underground labour process and the legal regulation of the industry. Third, it traces the history of deputies' union organization up until nationalization in 1947, and the formation of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS). The article concludes that the deputies represent a mainstream tradition of craft/professional identity and industrial moderation, in both the coal industry and the wider labour movement.

Coal-Mining in the Seventeenth Century

1925 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asta Moller
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Individual Consumer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Forest Lands

The history of coal-mining in the seventeenth century covers what may be termed the first chapter in the great story of English coal. In less than a century a seemingly insignificant and experimental industry developed into one of considerable importance. Coal had been used locally before this period; but an industry, as such, did not arise till a decline in the country's supply of wood stimulated new activities. It is possible that the introduction of coal might have been indefinitely postponed, had not years of ruthless felling of timber and neglect of forest lands, coincident with an increasing demand for wood for other than domestic purposes, caused a shortage of fuel. To the Elizabethan the decay of woods had an even wider significance. The demands of the Navy, the extension of the Empire and the discovery of new countries all laid a claim on timber. Its preservation became a matter of national concern. That the individual consumer should have possessed this degree of circumspection, and acted accordingly, was hardly to be expected; but the national needs were brought home to him through an increase in the price of wood. The use of coal became a matter of necessity rather than of choice.

Lee Smith: A Diamond from the Rough

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Byrd Cook
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Southern Literature ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Only Child ◽  
Southern Writers ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Black Mountain

This chapter discusses Lee Smith's fiction, which consistently probes the crises of identity that plague so many contemporary Americans, particularly women. Born on November 1, 1944, in the southwestern Virginia coal-mining town of Grundy, Lee Smith was an only child and a voracious reader. Smith recalls that growing up in Grundy, she consciously tried to conform to the image of an aspiring southern “lady.” Initially Smith wrote about romantic and foreign subjects, but after encountering Eudora Welty's work in a southern literature course, she realized the importance of writing from one's experience. Like other members of her generation of southern writers, Smith creates a full, complex world of characters who confirm some stereotypes and transcend others. Her novels include The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (1968), The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed— Something in the Wind (1971), Fancy Strut (1973), Black Mountain Breakdown (1980), Family Linen (1985), Fair and Tender Ladies (1988), Saving Grace (1995), and On Agate Hill (2006).

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