This is the mass grave of the dead from the Speculator Mine Fire of 1917, men blown to such bits and burned to such a crisp that they could not be identified and were thus buried together. On June 8, 1917, the Speculator Mine in...
workplace deaths
This is the grave of Emmett Roe. You have likely never heard of Emmett Roe. But he was a murderous horrible person, one who made America worse for his existing..
On April 5, 2010, the Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia exploded, killing 29 of the 31 workers laboring in the mine. The product of the.
On April 10, 1917, four days after the U.S. declared war on Germany, the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, outside of Chester, exploded, killing 139 workers, mostly women and children. This is yet another example of the horrors of the American workplace in this...
I had a friend come give a talk at URI a couple of weeks ago, who works on the nuclear West. An art professor was there and asked if we.
Back when I was doing the research for Empire of Timber, I ran across a story in a timber journal about a child laborer from sometime around 1900. See, the.
On July 10, 1902, the Rolling Mill Mine in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, exploded due to a rise in firedamp, which is a rise in methane to dangerous levels. 112 miners died that day in what was one of so many coal mine disasters in these...
Bangladesh had lower safety standards than western nation and....that's not OK! A massive fire at a container depot near a port city in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least 49 people,.
For the latest LGM podcast, I interview Nate Holdren of Drake University about his recent book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. This is a.
In 2013, the Rana Plaza collapsed, killing 1,129 workers making your clothing. No one in America cared. American companies made sure nothing would change. European companies at least agreed to minor changes in workplace safety, but even that was quite limited. So it's hardly surprising...
Among the people most impacted by climate change are farmworkers. That a worker died in the recent Northwest heat wave is entirely expected. Sebastian Francisco Perez, a Guatemalan immigrant to.
Under Trump, ICE became a catch all agency for intimidation of people of color and the poor. A senior political appointee from the Trump administration still employed at a federal.