Monongah
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Monongah

The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Monongah

The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster

About this book

New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. Reich

Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907 and McAteer, an expert on mine and workplace health and safety, delves deeply into the economic forces and social-political landscape of the mining communities of north central West Virginia to expose the truth behind this tragedy. After nearly thirty years of exhaustive research, McAteer determines 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. 

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 McAteer helped to enact. This new paperback edition includes an introduction by Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration.

 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for MONONGAH
  3. Other Books in this Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. PUBLICATIONS BY DAVITT McATEER
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction by Robert B. Reich
  12. 1 J. H. Leonard, Oiler for the No. 6 Mine
  13. 2 The Northern Coal Fields of West Virginia
  14. 3 Lester Emmitt Trader: Assistant Fire Boss at Age 22
  15. 4 The Company Men
  16. 5 The Mining Companies: The Early Years
  17. 6 The City of Mines
  18. 7 Immigrants Wanted
  19. 8 “Hire Bands or Anything That Is Necessary”
  20. 9 And The Explosion Came
  21. 10 Escape and Rescue
  22. 11 “They Are All Gone”
  23. 12 “We Know So Little About How These Explosions Occur”
  24. 13 The Monongah Mine Relief Fund in Aid of Sufferers from the Monongah Mine Explosion
  25. 14 Wheels of Justice
  26. 15 The Number
  27. 16 “An End to This Huge Loss and Waste”
  28. 17 The Conscience of a Nation
  29. Postscript
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Individuals Mentioned in Monongah
  33. Reprint of the Mines Relief Committee Report
  34. Index
  35. About the Author
  36. Back Cover