Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch (Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623490642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Over time, the work force grew more professionalized, and technological change attracted a different type of laborer.Bobby D. Weaver grew up and worked in the oil patch. Drillers, shooters, toolies, pipeliners, teamsters, roustabouts, tank builders, roughnecks each of them played a role in the frenzied, hard-driving lifestyle of the boomtowns that sprouted overnight in association with each major oil discovery.Weaver tracks the differences between company workers and contract workers. He highlights the similarities and differences from one field to another and traces changing aspects of the work over time.
Scholarly Lou Rohlman Lots of footnotes and documentation. Well-researched and well-written. The author, Weaver, approaches from an academic standpoint. Good book, I enjoyed it.. "Roughneck Stories" according to anr1261Roughneck Stories My husband adores this book. He works on the rigs so he enjoys reading about old stories that happened. Good Choice!. . My husband adores this book. He works on the rigs so he enjoys reading about old stories that happened. Good Choice!. Brings back memories of my days in the oil patch Roughneck Although I didn't work that far back, many things were still done the same way as when I worked during the 60s.
Weaver draws on an abundant supply of interviews and his own insights as a former roughneck to paint a vivid picture of life among the state's independent upstream drilling contractors accessible descriptions of work in the oil patch an important contribution to an understudied aspect of southern labor history."--Journal of Southern History. Bobby D. " welcome addition to the relatively sparse literature on the history of work in the Texas oil industry