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Oilfield trash : life and labor in the oil patch /

"Given that hundreds of thousands of persons worked in the upstream sector of the American petroleum industry (1901-1960), it is remarkable and lamentable that to this point there has been relatively little written on the history of oilfield labor in general, let alone in Texas

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, Bobby D. (Bobby Dearl), 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The oil boom, 1901-1905
  • The drillers, 1901-1910
  • The other hands, 1901-1910
  • Moving on up north, 1910-1922
  • The Panhandle-populating cow country, 1919-1930
  • East Texas--changes in the patch, 1930-1935
  • Way out west, 1923-1940
  • Change comes to the oil patch, 1941-1960
  • The making of an oilfield culture, 1901-1960
  • A language of their own.