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Author: Davitt McAteer
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Volume: 06
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.721kg
ISBN: 9781933202297
ISBN 10: 1933202297
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 30 November 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Monongah is an important book, long overdue. Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor McAteer skillfully analyzes the tragedy, examining players on the company side from the upper levels of the rich and powerful to the mine supervision and operations level, while giving equal weight and voice to the immigrant groups that provided the vast majority of the victims... It is fortuante that a man of David McAteer's caliber undertook to tell the tragic story. Charles McCollester, West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional History Monongah is a major scholary work, and another in a series of WVU Press offerings that tells previously untold stories about the people who really built West Virginia, and often suffered in doing so. Ken Ward, The West Virginia Lawyer [ Monongah ] is a compelling, cautionary tale of avarice and corruption, as well as a testament to the ultimate resilience of exploited people. Shirley Stewart Burns, The Journal of Southern History McAteer's work is undeniably significant and his extensive research is evident. Joshua Stahlman, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
<p> Monongah is an important book, long overdue. <br>Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor<p> McAteer skillfully analyzes the tragedy, examining players on the company side from the upper levels of the rich and powerful to the mine supervision and operations level, while giving equal weight and voice to the immigrant groups that provided the vast majority of the victims... It is fortuante that a man of David McAteer's caliber undertook to tell the tragic story. <br>Charles McCollester, West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional History <p> Monongah is a major scholary work, and another in a series of WVU Press offerings that tells previously untold stories about the people who really built West Virginia, and often suffered in doing so. <br>Ken Ward, The West Virginia Lawyer <p> [ Monongah ] is a compelling, cautionary tale of avarice and corruption, as well as a testament to the ultimate resilience of exploited people. <br>Shirley Stewart Burns, The Journal of Southern History <p> McAteer's work is undeniably significant and his extensive research is evident. <br>Joshua Stahlman, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Author Information
Davitt McAteer is internationally recognized as an expert on mine and workplace health and safety. He has worked with consumer advocate Ralph Nader to enact the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. He was also involved in the recovery efforts at Ground Zero shortly after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. He has also conducted an independent investigation on the cause of the Sago Mine Disaster. Today, McAteer is vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University and maintains a law office in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife Kathryn.
