Work Cited

Black, Brian. Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000.

Boatright, Mody C. and Owens, William A. Tales From the Derrick Floor; a people’s history of the oil industry. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,  1970.

Carlson, Peter. Roughneck: The life and times of Big Bill Haywood.  New York: W. W. Norton. 1983.

Lambert , Paul F. and Franks, Kenny A. Voices From the Oil Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1984.

Lynch, Gerald. Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields.  Austin: University of Texas Press. 1987.

McCracken, Harold. Roughnecks and Gentleman. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. 1968.

            *This is a novel that I was hoping would be really helpful. However, what talk there is of production and the hard life is all taken place in Alaska.

National Commission on Labour, Report of the Study Group for Oil Refining and Distribution. Delhi, India: M/s Samrat Press. 1968.

                  *There was a chapter dedicated to working conditions, It was useful but didn’t focus on the production, only refining.

Olien, Roger M. and Olien, Diana D. Oil and Ideology. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press.

            *This had a lot of good information in it but didn’t fit the feel of the blog. It talked mostly of Standard Oil and politics.

Roughneck. Johnny Cash. From the album: Blood, Sweat & Tears. Released 1963. YouTube, May 29, 2009.  Uploaded by Oiyoo.

Roughnecks Career Information. OilRecruiter.net. The Oil & Gas Industry Jobs Board.  2007

            Accessed: Dec. 15, 2010 http://oilrecruiter.net/index.php?page=d_roughnecks

*What sources that aren’t directly cited in the blog I still used as a general knowledge to get into the role of the roughneck, however not all seemed fitting to quote so they are just added here.