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Author
Language
English
Description
The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. Rye yearns for a steady job and a home; his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth...
2) Germinal
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
Français
Description
During the Second Napoleonic Empire, Etienne Lantier finds employment as a coal miner in the northern French town of Montsou. He immediately encounters misery and degradation in the appalling conditions of the mine. There he meets men as unscrupulous as Chaval and, conversely, as generous as Maheu. In fact, a whole range of suffering humanity, laboring under the curse of capitalism.
4) The hour of fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the battle to transform American capitalism
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever.
5) You wouldn't want to be a 19th-century coal miner in England!: a dangerous job you'd rather not have
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 14
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
8) Rose
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In 1870s England, Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer who returned from Africa, is hired by the owner of a coal mine to find a man missing after a pit explosion, a man many people don't want found. In the process he falls in love with Rose, a tough pit girl. The novel is at once a mystery, a love story and a critique of English society, the hero being an Anglophobe.
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