Thomas G. Andrews book, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, merges labor and environmental history in an breakdown of the half century leading up to the most fierce and violent labor unrest of the post civil war era, which is the Colorado coal-miner strike of 1913-1914, the Ludlow battle/massacre and Ten Day Coalfield War. Thomas Andrews argues in his book that these incidents cannot be seen in isolation or as separate events, but as the climax of half a century of struggle within the lower class and immigrants of the nation. Andrews argues this through a specific treatment of the environment, particularly in the standard of the working conditions that the miners are subjected to and the relationship that the working people and their surrounding environment share. Andrews argues that the working condition of the Colorado mining fields has a crucial role in causing solidarity among miners and further straining tensions between owners and their workforce.…
Interpretive Oral Presentation Transcript on “Nineteen Eighty Four” What were Winston Smith’s philosophical concerns toward his observance of human nature in society and the way people lived their life, in the context of the novel? In the text “Nineteen Eighty Four”, the way the human nature in society and the way people lived their lives was noticeably a concern for Winston. He saw that life was becoming too mechanical and that the loss of humanity was becoming a reality. A mechanical lifestyle involves the idea of conformity, where the population changes their behaviour in order to fit into the society.…
Fighting for their right to pensions and future socioeconomic stability, the steel mill workers are asserting their agency through political organizing. Yet, the reason for them declaring their agency is due to their exit zero status as workers who are ‘forgotten’ and ‘overlooked’ as the steel mills restructure under…
The image from “The protectors of our industries,” shows how the owners are relaxing on top of the workers and it’s the workers that are doing the jobs (Doc. A). The working conditions were extremely dangerous because people lost fingers, limbs, become physically handicapped, stooped over, or other health problems. Woman and children were paid less…
The emergence of industrialization was meant to be a time of advancement and improvement in the lives of the American people. In the eyes of many, it was going to be the stepping-stool needed to realize the aspired for “American Dream”. However, while it was the rise of machine-based manufacturing and technology, it was also the fall of opportunity for the independent farmer, merchant and artisan. Wage labor became the norm—this could have been a wonderful advancement, but factories and mining operations were not regulated by the government; owners were able to treat their workers in whatever manner they saw fit. Among the worst conditions endured during this revolution were those of the coal miners and their families.…
Child labor, seen today as frighteningly atrocious, was prevalent during the early 20th century, and the lack of empathy among the people at the time are exemplified throughout Kelley’s piece. Fueled by humankind’s innate greed for money, and thus, the recruitment of these children and it’s obvious selfish needs was illuminated by Kelley as she exposed the wrong-doings of the everyday people through her use of first person point of view. Moreover, the aforementioned lack of empathy associated with allowing child labor to take place is made painfully obvious through Kelley’s use of rhetorical devices ranging from repetition to suffocatingly concise syntax. With this means of instilling a guilt-like response from the audience, the rhetorical…
The photograph captured the poorly ventilated areas of the factory that put the coal dust on their faces. The dust was serious health risk for their lungs. Even the place the kids stood or sat to take this photograph were not meant to support that weight. This dehumanizing was a result of the capitalists’ so-called “industrial revolution”. Besides the job of breaker boys, countless jobs were physically laborious.…
In the United States, many workers face the constant anxiety of one day losing their job. It has become common today for workers to find out they lost their job and that results in the unemployment of millions of people. Following the loss of a job are feelings of distress, because these workers now have to find another source of income. As a result of mistreatment from employers, many workers join forces to create unions. Bruce Raynor is the president of UNITE, which is a union of 250,000 apparel, textile, laundry, and distribution workers.…
In the book “Why I Write”, George Orwell says that he writes because he has a “Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after”. The book “ The geography of thought” By Richard E. Nisbett he has a very strong push to alter people's ideas on how Asians and westerners think differently. The main point of the book is to see whether the world is going towards integrated Americanism or cont. diversity. Robert E. Nisbett uses a strong push through rhetorical questions, diction, and analepsis.…
Underground, dark, warm, and damp is the work environment of a coal miner. Coal mining has been around since the 1300’s. Since then, technology has changed and is still booming in today’s society. It was approximately around the late 1800’s that coal became a significant resource in generating electricity. The differences in coal mining today and back then were tremendously different.…
Thus, coal miners and railway workers especially were capable of making their requests heeded largely because they were in such state of possessing considerable influence, fundamentally, on energy generation and transportation. Every step involved in the coal business---mining, loading, transportation, and consumption---was susceptible to sabotage. Therefore, Mitchell argues that coal was the vital link between industrialization and mass democratization as a socio-technical agency was vested in the workers. However, the discovery and exploitation of oil by the end of the 20th century was a negative response to the amalgamated power of coal miners, railway workers, and longshoremen because it meant reduced interruptions of energy circulation via strikes as oil could be extracted and distributed without human involvement: “In fact, oil pipelines were invented as a means of reducing the ability of humans to interrupt the flow of energy” (36). Thus, Mitchell illustrates that “the rise of reorganized fossil-fuel networks in ways that were to alter the mechanics of democracy”.…
During the Industrial Revolution, coal mining expanded significantly, which led to coal being the primary source of energy today. Even as coal industries flourished and the economy boomed, the corporations were corrupt. This led to new inventions and discoveries of renewable energy. Nicholas Wood, the primary leader in coal mining engineering and safety, inspired many drastic changes of the unsettling coal mining industry. After he researched alternatives to coal, people explored new ways to obtain energy without the negative impacts coal had.…
In the modern world, there is a tendency to fetishize hard work. Manual labour is viewed by those who may not necessarily practice it as a noble enterprise, giving its own unique satisfaction. Though this is true in many cases, the unfortunate reality is that working hard all day, every day exacts a brutal toll on body and mind. Not only does work often take away energy that might otherwise be spent on constructive personal pursuits, it historically paid only the bare minimum needed to keep workers coming back to the factory, mine, or mill, regardless of their ability to survive, let alone thrive on such meagre compensation. Constant danger, active and passive oppression by local and national power structures all contribute to the deprivation…
I chose this article because although the industrialization led to an exponential growth in innovation and technology, there were mainly negative impacts and once is reflected through William Blake who personally experienced the neglect. He provides his own commentary on child labor during the Industrial revolution. Blake shares his experience through the poem and advocates for children’s rights.…
History Ideas To look at the british empire as a contradiction because it restricted choices, but also created opportunities for many people across the world is a viewpoint of a binary nature, one could critically evaluate the merit of this argument, The british empire became the process of enabling narratives to branch out from their brackets. For strange, unusual and unlikely things to occur to people. Specifically those that were colonised, to be more than the oppressed to inform their lives through much more than just reaction. They became these individuals of great significance for the way that they changed society. a change necessary enabling people to resist and live in a society dominated by these authorities still intact in our…