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001 2014002672
003 DLC
005 20150417084614.0
008 140122s2014 wvua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014002672
020 $a9781938228896 (paperback)
020 $a1938228898 (paperback)
020 $a9781938228971 (pdf)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aTN313$b.M338 2014
082 00 $a363.11/96223340975454$223
084 $aHIS036060$aHIS036120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMcAteer, J. Davitt.
245 10 $aMonongah :$bthe tragic story of the 1907 Monongah mine disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history /$cDavitt McAteer.
250 $aSecond edition.
264 1 $aMorgantown :$bWest Virginia University Press,$c2014.
300 $axix, 332 pages :$billustration :$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aWest Virginia and Appalachia ;$vvolume 6
520 $a"An in-depth history of the worst industrial accident in US history. Monongah documents the events which led to the explosion that claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907. Nearly thirty years of exhaustive research have led McAteer to the conclusion that close to 500 men and boys--many of them immigrants--lost their lives that day, leaving hundreds of women widowed and more than 1,000 children orphaned. McAteer delves deeply into the personalities, economic forces, and social landscape of the mining communities of north central West Virginia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tragedy at Monongah led to a greater awareness of industrial working conditions, and ultimately to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, which Davitt McAteer helped to enact"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aMonongah Mines Disaster, Monongah, W. Va., 1907.
650 0 $aMine explosions$zWest Virginia.
650 0 $aCoal mine accidents$zWest Virginia.
650 0 $aCoal mines and mining$zWest Virginia$y20th century.
650 0 $aMine safety$xLaw and legislation$xHistory.
651 0 $aMarion County (W. Va.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).$2bisacsh