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. In fact, I don't know all that much about much of his life. He was...
workplace deaths
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.
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 had visited the site of Rhode Island's nuclear fatality. I had never even heard of...
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.
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, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others, officials and local media reported Sunday,...
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.
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 Marion County, was working hard and saving money to become a father.He arrived in the...
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.
The meat industry is absolutely reprehensible. Its treatment of workers has been horrible ever since it and the Eisenhower administration busted the unions in the 50s in order to lower.