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Machine age in the hills /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Malcolm, 1895-1965
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan Co., ©1933.
Subjects:
Coal miners > Kentucky.
Coal miners > West Virginia.
Coal mines and mining > Kentucky.
Coal mines and mining > West Virginia.
Bituminous coal.
Appalachians (People)
Kentucky > Social conditions.
West Virginia > Social conditions.
Mineurs de charbon > Virginie-Occidentale.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Virginie-Occidentale.
Charbon bitumineux.
Kentucky > Conditions sociales.
Virginie-Occidentale > Conditions sociales.
bituminous coal.
Coal miners.
Coal mines and mining.
Social conditions
Kentucky.
West Virginia.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The emotional approach. Sentiment and science
  • Impressions at first hand
  • pt. 2. Machine age in the hills. Backwoods century
  • "Montani semper liberi"
  • Last stand
  • The boom
  • Collapse
  • Rebellion
  • pt. 3. Portrait of a people. The people
  • Miners
  • Grievances
  • Operators
  • Downpull of poverty
  • Children
  • pt. 4. The radical approach. "Bloody mingo" : 1920
  • Strike meeting : 1931
  • Kentucky : 1932
  • pt. 5. Quakers into action. Plagued by a concern
  • "Duty"
  • pt. 6. Ways out. Short-comings of a noble impulse
  • Inventory
  • The chance for science
  • Penny-a-ton.