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Collection Name:
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Colorado Coal Project
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Title:
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Coal mining in Weld County (Part 3 of 3)
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Creator:
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Margolis, Eric, 1947-
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Creator URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00101170
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Creator:
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McMahan, Ronald L.
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Creator URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94033808
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Subject:
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Coal mines and mining
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/865355
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Labor unions--Colorado
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Subject:
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Columbine Mine (Weld County, Colo.)
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Subject URI:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005004870
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Health and hygiene--United States
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Subject:
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Free enterprise--Public opinion--United States
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Subject:
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Quality of life--United States--History
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Subject:
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Coal miners--Personal narratives
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Subject:
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Retirees
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1096254
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Subject:
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Interviews
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Subject URI:
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http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423832
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Description:
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Retired coal miners, Claude and Lawrence Amicarella recount their coal mining days. They talk about working and living conditions and give examples of the prejudice held toward miners during the forties and fifties. They share their views on corrupt United Mine Workers officials, the incompetence of mine superintendents, bad management decisions, e.g. bringing in machinery that was too big for a mine. They believe that a free enterprise system should include the right to form labor unions and that all natural resources should be nationalized. They recall buying a company house, paying the weighman to be accurate, and surviving on low wages by working overtime. By comparison, they say, Western miners were highly mobile, while a sense of being stuck prevailed in the Eastern mining towns. It perplexes them why miners are considered "undesirables" when their lives were hard and their services indispensable.
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Description Type:
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summary
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Description:
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Transcript begins pg. 9 of pdf; 10:00 -- Discussion about impact of strip mining and harmful mining practices (pg. 15 of pdf transcript); 20:00 -- Comparisons of miners' lives in the East vs. the West (pg. 20 of pdf transcript); 30:00 -- Cycle of rising wages and inflation, incompetent mining supervisors (pg. 26 of pdf transcript); 40:00-- Problems of free enterprise system, lack of regulation for overtime (pg. 31 of pdf transcript); 50:00 -- Organizing miners for their protection (pg. 38 of pdf transcript); 60:00 -- Poor management decisions in mines, buying a company house (pg. 46 of pdf trnscript); Pages 46-54 of transcript Amicarella2 are not in the video.
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Description Type:
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segmentSequence
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Publisher:
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University of Colorado Boulder Archives
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Contributor:
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Amicarella, Claude, 1911-1986
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Contributor:
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Amicarella, Lawrence, 1902-1988
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Date:
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1978-02-21
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Type:
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Moving image
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Format:
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video/mov
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Identifier:
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134-Amicarella.mov
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Identifier ARK:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/w16n9t36x2k8
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Language:
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English
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 1 of 2)
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Relation Type:
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isFormatOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/b06x7g98n7wj
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 2)
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Relation Type:
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isFormatOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/c6132381n0k6
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 1 of 3)
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Relation Type:
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isPartOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/6c7p8385v4z2
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Relation:
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Title: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 3)
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Relation Type:
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isPartOf
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Relation href:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/2s116738r5q0
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Boulder County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
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Coverage (Temporal):
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1920/1978
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Columbine Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
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Coverage (Spatial):
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Weld County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
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