Foreword Joseph Willits (2 results)
What The Coal Commission Found: An Authoritative Summary By the Staff (Human Relations Serie)
Hunt, Edward Eyre ; Tryon, F. G.; Willits, Joseph H.(Editors) Hammond,John Hays (Foreword)
Language: English
Published by Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, MD, 1925
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st printing; maroon c w/gilt titles; 416 clean, unmarked pages/index. b/w Foontif; Tables, b/w Illus (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press/ H. Milford, Oxford University Press, Philadelphia, 1934
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- First Edition
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. RARE. First Edition in dust jacket. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front fly leaf - "To Aunt Ann and Uncle Jim, in loving appreciation Homer L. Morris June 10, 1934". Near Fine, slight toning to end papers, in a Very Good dust jack…et, small round hole at spine, several small edge tears and chips, jacket lightly soiled. xiv, 253 pp., with Appendix: "England Transfers Her Surplus Miners": p. 230-247. The author interviewed over 900 coal miners in Kentucky and West Virginia in this classic Depression era study performed under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee. Contents: The plight of the coal industry --How many miners are needed -- The unemployed miner and his family --Once a miner always a miner --The training and skill of miners -- Living in company controlled communities --Extent and effects of unemployment --What's the miner thinking --How can mining be improved --The economic status of miners --What do miners want to do --The rehabilitation of displaced miners --Rehabilitation a frontier of social justice. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.
