Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease

by Barbara Ellen Smith

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Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.

Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1642592757

ISBN13:9781642592757

Release Date:November 2020

Publisher:Haymarket Books

Length:330 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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