The Shadow Of The Mills

Author : S. J. Kleinberg
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082297147X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Of The Mills written by S. J. Kleinberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profound disruption of family relationships caused by industrialization found its most dramatic expression in the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. The work day was twelve hours, and the work week was seven days - with every other Sunday for rest. In this major work, S. J. Kleinberg focuses on the private side of industrialization, on how the mills structured the everyday existence of the women, men, and children who lived in their shadows. What did industrialization and urbanization really mean to the people who lived through the these processes? What solutions did they find to the problems of low wages, poor housing, inadequate sanitation, and high mortality rates? Through imaginative use of census data, the records of municipal, charitable, and fraternal organizations, and the voices of workers themselves in local newspapers, Kleinberg builds a detailed picture of the working-class life cycle: marital relationships, the interaction between parents and children, the education and employment prospects of the young, and the lives if the elderly.

Author : Rukmini Barua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009032402
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Mill written by Rukmini Barua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the socio–spatial transformation of Ahmedabad's worker neighbourhoods over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - during which the city witnessed dramatic and disturbing transformations. It follows the multiple histories of Ahmedabad's labour landscapes from the times when the city acquired prominence as an important site of Gandhian political activity and as a key centre of the textile industry, through the decades of industrial collapse and periods of sectarian violence in the recent years. Taking the working-class neighbourhood as a scale of social practice, the question of urban change is examined along two axes of investigation: the transformation of local political configurations and forms of political mediation and the shifts in the social geography of the neighbourhood as reflected in the changing regimes of property.

Author : Elizabeth M. Sharpe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416572643
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Dam written by Elizabeth M. Sharpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation wondering how this terrible calamity had happened. In this compelling tale of a man-made disaster peopled with everyday heroes and arrogant scoundrels, Elizabeth Sharpe opens a rare window into industry and village life in nineteenth-century New England, a time when dam failures and other industrial accidents were widespread and laws favored factory owners rather than factory workers. In the Mill Valley, the townsfolk depended upon generally benevolent patriarchs who assured them that the dam was safe, when most people could see that it was not. The story of the Mill River flood is the story of those townsfolk: of George Cheney, the dam keeper whose repeated warnings about leaks in the dam had been ignored by the mill owners; of his wife, Elizabeth, who watched in disbelief as the dam burst open from the bottom; of Isabell Hayden, the mother who saw her young son swept away in the river's torrent; and of Fred Howard, a box maker who spent the days after the flood searching for bodies, burying friends, and waiting to see if the button factory he relied upon for his livelihood would be rebuilt. It is also the story of the well-meaning but overconfident businessmen who built the dam: of Onslow Spelman, the manufacturer who dismissed the dam keeper's flood warning, irrationally insisting that the dam could not break; of Lucius Fenn and Joel Bassett, the engineer and contractor whose roles in the construction of the dam would be questioned during the public inquest into the causes of the flood; of William Skinner, the factory owner who struggled to decide whether or not to rebuild his silk factory in the village that bore his name; and of many others. The flood highlighted class divisions between worker and owner, as well as the disorganized state of professional engineering, then still in its infancy. As the flood exposed the dangers of allowing mill owners -- who were not trained engineers -- to design their own dam, legislation to regulate the building of reservoir dams in Massachusetts was enacted for the first time. Engineers, politicians, and business owners battled over control of the reform measures to prevent similar tragedies, yet saw them continually repeated. In the Shadow of the Dam is the story of an event that reshaped a society. Told through the eyes of villagers like Collins Graves, lauded as a hero for his desperate ride through the valley to warn people of the impending flood, and industrialists like Joel Hayden Jr., entrusted with the responsibility of disaster relief despite his culpability in failing to maintain the leaking dam, In the Shadow of the Dam is a history of our uneasy relationship with industrial progress and a riveting narrative of a tragic disaster in small-town Massachusetts.

Author : Florence Ethel Mills Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Past written by Florence Ethel Mills Young and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Mills
Publisher : Pacific PressPub Assn
ISBN 13 : 9780816319930
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storm on Shadow Mountain written by Charles Mills and published by Pacific PressPub Assn. This book was released on 2003 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eleven-year-old Alex and his friends go on a trip to mountains in Maryland in order to earn their Wilderness Living patch, they become separated from their group and are confronted with an unexpected snowstorm.

Author : Charles Mills
Publisher : Review & Herald Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780828008303
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape to Shadow Creek Ranch written by Charles Mills and published by Review & Herald Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a long journey to Shadow Creek Ranch. Discover new meaning for your own life as you join Debbie, Wendy, Grandpa, and all the rest. Watch God's creatures live and play among magnificent mountains and deep, green valleys. Sleep under the stars. Listen to the mysterious sounds of nature. Hurry! Make your reservation at Shadow Creek Ranch now!

Author : Vince Flynn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476783543
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemy of the State written by Vince Flynn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the world of black-op thrillers, Mitch Rapp continues to be among the best of the best” (Booklist, starred review), and he returns in the #1 New York Times bestselling series alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies. After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history—the evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried and in return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. But when the king’s own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the furious President gives Rapp his next mission: he must find out more about the high-level Saudis involved in the scheme and kill them. The catch? Rapp will get no support from the United States. Forced to make a decision that will change his life forever, Rapp quits the CIA and assembles a group of independent contractors to help him complete the mission. They’ve barely begun unraveling the connections between the Saudi government and ISIS when the brilliant new head of the intelligence directorate discovers their efforts. With Rapp getting too close, he threatens to go public with the details of the post-9/11 agreement between the two countries. Facing an international incident that could end his political career, the President orders America’s intelligence agencies to join the Saudis’ effort to hunt the former CIA man down. Rapp, supported only by a team of mercenaries with dubious allegiances, finds himself at the center of the most elaborate manhunt in history. With white-knuckled twists and turns leading to “an explosive climax” (Publishers Weekly), Enemy of the State is an unputdownable thrill ride that will keep you guessing until the final page.

Author : Patrick Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684641024
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patty and the Shadows written by Patrick Mills and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tyson is Patty's archrival. And when he gives Patty a hard time about his people, it really hurts. But it makes Patty more determined than ever. Playing for the Shadows, Patty and his friends have a chance to shine - and show that Indigenous kids can do anything. After a huge improvement, they make the grand final. And the result will come down to the final seconds of the game.

Author : DiAnn Mills
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414346832
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of Justice written by DiAnn Mills and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Agent Bella Jordan is assigned to investigate a series of murders in West Texas that are linked to the Spider Rock Treasure. Since she spent the first fifteen years of her life in this area, FBI authorities believe she can get the job done. What they don’t know is that one of their prime suspects—a man who’s been on their wanted list for years—is deeply connected to Bella’s past. The other prime suspect is Carr Sullivan, the man who owns the ranch where the murders occurred. Carr was once one of the wealthiest businessmen in Dallas and has a shady past a mile long. But it appears he’s turned his life around. Can Bella trust him, or is he just trying to cover his tracks? As Bella probes deeper into the case, threats on her own life convince her the killer is someone she knows. But it soon becomes clear he’s not working alone, and she’ll need to face the past she’s tried so desperately to forget in order to solve the case and prevent more murders.

Author : Charles Mills
Publisher : Review & Herald Pub Assn
ISBN 13 : 9780828007177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure of the Merrilee written by Charles Mills and published by Review & Herald Pub Assn. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Shadow Creek Ranch in Montana, where troubled young people are rehabilitated by Christian love, ten-year-old Wendy finds and explores an abandoned farmhouse, while teenage Joey hears that his older brother back in New York has been arrested for drugs. Sequel to "Secret of Squaw Rock."