The Prosperity Coal Company Philip Richardson Books
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Tommy Ross follows his older brothers to be an apprentice in the hazardous trade of mining coal. It is doubly dangerous, for his father has been sent to organize a local union in a "company owned" coal camp. "The Prosperity Coal Company" is a novel based on actual events that occurred all across the coal belt, when America was on the cusp of the great depression, and union wars raged. It was a time when mine owners sought to keep their workers in a state of constant serfdom; working in horrifying conditions, forced to live in shack houses and in mounting debt to the "company store." Herein also lives a simple love story of the mine owner's daughter and the union organizer's son.
The Prosperity Coal Company Philip Richardson Books
Having toured the copper mines in Bisbee, Az and the mining museum, the book added a deeper understanding of the moves to unionize miners. Striking miners were run out of town on a train in the early 1900's. The processes for mining coal and copper in those days seem similar and as dangerous.Product details
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The Prosperity Coal Company Philip Richardson Books Reviews
This fictional look back at the hardscrabble lives of 1920-era Illinois
coal miners starts slowly, building a sense of people and place, but
ends in a fast-paced page-turner as events overtake the Prosperity Coal
Company. The story is told as a first-person narrative by the teen-aged
son of a union organizer and we see the events of the novel and hear his
dialog with the other characters through his senses.
The first part of the story is notable for its finely detailed
recollections of the backbreaking, hand-and-shovel work of small-time
underground coal mining, in marked contrast to today's massive, highly
mechanized strip-mining operations. It also provides an intimate look
into the day-to-day lives of the ordinary people living in the shanties
of an isolated company town. We hear their speech patterns and, in a
way, participate in the setting with them.
The remaining chapters sweep the reader up into the hard-edged labor
struggle of the miners where violence is an ever-present threat and a
favorable outcome is doubtful. And here the people and places of the
slower-paced first chapters truly take on a life and reality of their
own. The reader becomes the principal character, Tommy Ross, as he
comes of age literally overnight to both triumph and tragedy.
This book is a good read for adults, but some parts may be too
intense for young people. It is an education in history that is fast
fading in memories of that time and place.
Having toured the copper mines in Bisbee, Az and the mining museum, the book added a deeper understanding of the moves to unionize miners. Striking miners were run out of town on a train in the early 1900's. The processes for mining coal and copper in those days seem similar and as dangerous.
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