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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Coal-mining communities"”.
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Toying with Americanization: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities
<p>During the early 20<sup>th</sup> century coal miners' lives in Southern Colorado were fraught with violence and hardships. Many immigrant men brought their families to remote areas to live in company towns and work in coal mines. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attempted to assimilate …
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An intergenerational ethnography of school disaffection in a post-industrial coal-mining area.
… 'disaffection' in four former Derbyshire coal mining communities during a period of de-industrialisation, exploring the intersection between education and aspects of class, gender, community, culture and history particular to those communities. A key focus is the investigation of school …
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Exploring the socio-economic impacts of South Africa’s just energy transition (JET): a case study of coal-dependent communities in Mpumalanga
The closure of collieries and coal-fired power plants has resulted in social disturbance, reduced employment figures and economic downturns. The challenge in this study focused on a just energy transition in the coal mining sector in South Africa and the reality of implementing such change in …
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Historical Study of Burke's Garden High School: 1915 to 1960
… and the community to work with neighboring communities for the benefit of the school and community. The practice of boarding students and teachers was employed to increase the number of students as well as to provide additional support for teachers. Eventually, due to improved transportation …
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Tasks, Skills, and Jobs in the Green Economy
… their prevalence across the U.S., focusing on coal-mining communities in Appalachia. We sort a variety of skills into categories reflecting task and skill differences between green and non-green occupations, identified through O*NET. Principal Component Analysis helps categorize these into …