Meet Our Coal Miner's Wives
Author | : Jo Ann Tiemann |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Author | : Jo Ann Tiemann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Author | : Carol A.B. Giesen |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813189489 |
Few people in America today live with the dangers and deprivations that Appalachian coal mining families experience. But to the eighteen West Virginia women Carol Giesen interviewed for this book, hard times are just everyday life. These coal miners' wives, ranging in age from late teens to eighty-five, tell of a way of life dominated by coal mining—and shadowed by a constant fear of death or injury to a loved one. From birth to old age, they experience the social and economic pressures of the coal mining industry. Few families in these communities earn their living in any job outside a coal mine, and most young men and women find no advantage in completing their education. Women whose stresses and strengths have seldom been disclosed reveal here their personal stories, their understanding of the dangers of coal mining, their domestic concerns, the place of friends and faith in their lives, and their expectations of the future. What emerges is a deeply moving story of determination in the face of adversity. Over and over, these women deal with the frustrations caused by strikes, layoffs, and mine closings, often taking any jobs they can find while their husbands are out of work. Endlessly; their home concerns revolve around protecting their husbands from additional work or worry. Always there is fear for their husbands' lives and the pervasive anger they feel toward the mining companies. For some, there is also the pain of losing a loved one to the mines. Behind these women's acceptance of their circumstances lies a pragmatic understanding of the politics of mining and of the communities in which they live. Giesen's insights into the experiences of miners' wives contribute much to our understanding of the impact of industry, economics, and politics on women's lives.
Author | : Women's Committee for the Relief of Miners' Wives and Children |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Coal miners |
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Author | : Marat Moore |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Women in the Mines informs, provokes and inspires from first page to last with gripping stories from coalfield women from 1914 to 1994. Early women miners describe handloading coal to help their families survive. The 1970s generation talks openly about sexual harassment, community attitudes, pregnancy, health and safety, racism, aging, and unemployment. The stories demonstrate the strength and resilience of women who accepted the challenge of nontraditional work and the changes in their lives brought by that decision.
Author | : Suzanne E. Tallichet |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271045183 |
Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. Tallichet's work goes beyond anecdotal evidence to provide complex and penetrating analyses of qualitative data. Based on in-depth interviews with female miners, Tallichet explores several key topics, including social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation. She also explores the ways in which women adapt to mining culture, developing strategies for both resistance and accommodation to an overwhelmingly male-dominated world.
Author | : Margaret Hedley |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750991046 |
The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very little written about the importance of the home life that supported the miners - their wives who, through heroic efforts, did their best to provide attractive, healthy, happy home for their husbands, often in appalling social conditions. To provide a welcoming atmosphere at home demanded tremendous resources and commitment from the miners' wives. Despite their many hardships these women selflessly put everyone in the family before themselves. They operated on less rest, less food at times of necessity and under the huge physical burden of work and the emotional burden of worry concerning the safety of their family. Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century: Hannah's Story addresses the lack of information about the role of women in the Durham Coalfield, engagingly explored through one woman's experience.
Author | : Jennifer Ruddlesdin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Coal miners' spouses |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Women's Committee for the Relief of Miners' Wives and Children |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1926* |
Genre | : Children of coal miners |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Scott Martelle |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 081354419X |
"On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.