On May 2, 1972, a fire started in the Sunshine Mine, outside of Kellogg, Idaho. The fire filled the mine chambers with carbon monoxide and other poisonous gas. Of the.
On April 23, 1927, a fire broke out at the Briggs auto plant in Detroit. It killed 21 workers. This terrible incident is a window into the racialized forms of.
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.
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.
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.
