Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform by Graebner, William

Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152738)

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Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform by Graebner, William

Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform

$25.00
Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform by Graebner, William

Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society. A series of mine disasters in December 1907 (including one in Monongah, West Virginia, which took a toll of 361 lives) shook the public, at least temporarily, out of its lethargy. In this award-winning study, author William Graebner traces the development of mine safety reform in the years immedia

Author: William Graebner
ISBN-10: 0813152739
ISBN-13: 9780813152738
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
By William Graebner
By William Graebner
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William Graebner is professor of history at State University College, Fredonia, New York. This study is the winner of the 1975 Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.

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