The City That Ate Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City That Ate Itself write by Brian James Leech. This book was released on 2018-02-28. The City That Ate Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.
The City that Ate Itself
The City that Ate Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City that Ate Itself write by Brian James Leech. This book was released on 2013. The City that Ate Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moving past the well-tread history of underground mining, this dissertation is the first study to examine the full social effects of the shift from underground to open pit mining, which occurred across the American West's hard rock industry. The basis for this dissertation is a case study of Butte, Montana, where the Anaconda Company performed this switch from the 1950s to the 1970s. Butte's Berkeley Pit was a safe and efficient way to mine copper, but the pit also consumed a number of old city neighborhoods, challenged mining's masculine work culture, lessened union power, strained residents' ethnic traditions, and damaged city leaders' attempts to plan for the future. Like community members, the Anaconda Company also had to adjust to the new form of mining. Facing community protests, Anaconda formed an effective property acquisition system and encouraged its engineers to manage the community's perceptions of open-pit hazards. Like other communities built on an unsustainable natural resource, Butte began to consume itself-- hollowing out the ground, the city center, and the economy. By the late 1970s, environmentalism, fiscal mismanagement, and international competition hit Anaconda at precisely the moment that it faced declining ore grades in Butte. By following Butte's story past the Berkeley Pit's closure in the 1980s, the dissertation therefore also covers the complex consequences of economic bust on western communities, a topic long overlooked in favor of natural resource booms. As the final chapters show, community members eventually made many, often-successful, attempts at environmental and social rebirth.
The City That Made Itself; - Primary Source Edition
The City That Made Itself; - Primary Source Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City That Made Itself; - Primary Source Edition write by Welford [From Old Catalog] Beaton. This book was released on 2013-10. The City That Made Itself; - Primary Source Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The City that Found Itself
The City that Found Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City that Found Itself write by Thomas Sherrard Roy. This book was released on 1945. The City that Found Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Illinois Municipal Review
Illinois Municipal Review - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illinois Municipal Review write by . This book was released on 1925. Illinois Municipal Review available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
