How Long to Read Regulating Danger

How Long Does it Take to Read Regulating Danger?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Regulating Danger by James Whiteside

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.

How long is Regulating Danger?

Regulating Danger by James Whiteside is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Regulating Danger Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Regulating Danger aloud.

What Reading Level is Regulating Danger?

Regulating Danger is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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