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Author Gómez Urrutia, Napoleón.

Title Collapse of dignity : the story of a mining tragedy and the fight against greed and corruption in Mexico / Napoleón Gómez Urrutia.

Publication Info. Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2013]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  363.1196 G58    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.1196 GOMEZ    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.1196 G58    Check Shelf
Description 344 pages : some color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- The succession -- A new leader -- Toma de Nota -- The explosion -- In the time -- Departure -- The resistance -- A legal farce -- A global war -- Dashed hope -- Proof of conspiracy -- Slander and redemption -- Three strikes -- The offer -- A faulty bridge -- The Larrea brothers go missing -- A new casualty -- The trick -- The exile -- Epilogue.
Summary In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping sixty-five workers in a subterranean tunnel. Labor department inspectors and the company operating the mine had ignored the egregiously hazardous state of the work site and were failing miserably at a rescue effort. The senseless tragedy-- stemming directly from an insatiable hunger for profits-- set off a massive confrontation between the National Miners' Union and the transnational corporations that wield great power in the country's government.
Subject Coal miners -- Labor unions -- Mexico -- Nueva Rosita.
Coal mine accidents -- Mexico.
Mine explosions -- Mexico -- Nueva Rosita.
Sindicato Minero (Mexico)
ISBN 9781939529220 trade cloth alkaline paper
1939529220 trade cloth alkaline paper
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