Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers - Thirty-Three Years in the Oil Fields

Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared.
In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.

Zusammenfassung

A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gerald Lynch
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9780292770522
• ISBN: 978-0-292-77052-2
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Gewicht: 494 g
• Serien: Personal Narratives of the Wes; University of Texas Press; Personal Narratives of the West; Personal Narratives of the Wes
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika