SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bsc Young Boys, Plywood, Social Mobility

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

Westray boasts that they have got the technology to make it safe to mine the coal. There was not a lot of employment in nova scotia before the coal mine. 7000 tons of high grade coal for every year for the next 15 years. Mining is not a job, it is a way of a living. It eats away your lungs : mining pictou county coal has never been for the faint of heart. 537 men and boys died in the pits: young boys were not entirely aware of the dangers in the mine. Only experienced miners knew: when the westray hisses, it is the methane seeping out. 1,2, or 3 showers, the miners did not make a difference: all coal mines give off methane gas at concentration between 5% to 15% can be flammable especially if there is coal dust to feed it.