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The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Gerald M. Stern |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Release |
: 2011-01-26 |
File |
: 300 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780307783844 |
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Genre |
: Dam failures |
Author |
: William Edward Davies |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1972 |
File |
: 40 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCR:31210020730576 |
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A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 and COVID-19, the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria, the Reagan administration’s antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates how—despite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the world—vulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisis considers the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Martin Halliwell |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Release |
: 2021-05-18 |
File |
: 421 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520976719 |
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The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning of citizenship in an energy-intensive democracy. Energy Citizenship traces the uncertain relationship between coal and democracy from the Progressive Era to the election of Ronald Reagan, examining how miners’ democratic aspirations confronted the deadly record of the country’s coal mines. Miners and their communities bore the burdens of energy production while reaping far fewer of the benefits of energy consumption. But they insisted that death in the mines, far from being inevitable, was a political choice. Kahle demonstrates that coal miners’ struggles to democratize the workplace, secure civil and social rights, and obtain restitution for the human toll of progress reshaped U.S. laws, regulatory administrations, and political imaginaries. Energy policy in the twentieth century was about not only managing fuels but also negotiating the relationship between coal miners and the rest of the country, which depended on the electric power and steel produced with the coal they mined. Placing coal miners at the center of a sweeping new history of the United States, this book unmasks the violence of energy systems and shows how energy governance cuts to the heart of persistent questions about democracy, justice, and equality.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Trish Kahle |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Release |
: 2024-10-29 |
File |
: 273 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231560795 |
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Genre |
: Compensation (Law) |
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1976 |
File |
: 112 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: LOC:00183874780 |
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One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue. This is the story of their triumph over incredible odds and corporate irresponsibility, as told by Gerald M. Stern, who as a young lawyer and took on the case and won.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Gerald M. Stern |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Release |
: 2008-05-06 |
File |
: 308 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: PSU:000067836918 |
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Genre |
: Appalachian Mountains |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1980 |
File |
: 668 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000104512342 |
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Genre |
: Medical |
Author |
: Howard J. Parad |
Publisher |
: Brady Publishing |
Release |
: 1976 |
File |
: 536 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015050334799 |
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The seventies witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Beth L. Bailey |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2004 |
File |
: 294 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015059123896 |
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Genre |
: Appalachian Mountains |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1977 |
File |
: 590 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X001043024 |