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Publisher
Appalshop Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Interviewed at home and at work, female coal miners discuss the social and economic conditions that led them to seek employment in this male-dominated industry and the problems they have encountered on the job. Shows female miners organizing themselves, participating in union affairs, and leading the fight for mine health and safety.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color / black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when the Brookside coal miners voted for the United Mine Workers union, the Duke Power Company refused it. Barbara Kopple documented the struggle between the miners and the company, causing a big uproar.
11) Hillbilly women
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1973.
Edition
[first edition].
Physical Desc
viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) Clay's quilt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts.
17) Granny woman
Author
Series
Appalachian journey volume 5
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Bessie and Fletcher Elliott lose all their money when their bank fails at the beginning of the Great Depression, Fletch is forced to seek employment elsewhere in order to sustain their struggling farm on Stone Mountain, North Carolina. Fletch's brothers Jim and Tom, working in a coal mine in Beacham, West Virginia, convince Fletch that there is money to be made as a miner, so he and Bessie move to Beacham in hopes of a temporary measure that...
Author
Series
Twayne's oral history volume no. 20
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
liv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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