Silver People

Silver People

Author: Margarita Engle

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0544109414

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As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.


The Canal Builders

The Canal Builders

Author: Julie Greene

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-02-05

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1101011556

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A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their famiĀ­lies. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.


The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

Author: Jon T. Hoffman

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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This pamphlet describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George W. Goethals, who oversaw the final design of the canal and its construction and, equally important, motivated his workers to complete the herculean task ahead of schedule; and many other officers who headed up the project's subordinate construction commands and rebuilt the Panama railroad, a key component of the venture. In just seven years, these soldiers, thousands of fellow Americans, and tens of thousands of workers from around the world turned the dream of an isthmian canal into reality. Their success immediately ranked among the greatest peacetime feats of the Army and the nation, and it remains so to this day.


Adjustmentof Pay Rates and Conditions in the Canal Zone

Adjustmentof Pay Rates and Conditions in the Canal Zone

Author: United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Considers legislation to authorize application of equivalent wage and benefit provisions to U.S. and Panamanian employees of Federal agencies in the Panama Canal Zone.


Report

Report

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 1874

ISBN-13:

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