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Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solid

Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solid

While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have al

The knowledge that they traded their lives for a job generated an overarching fear of losing their income."--BOOK JACKET.

Using oral histories, company records, and census data, Crandall A. Shifflett paints a vivid portrait of miners and their families in southern Appalachian coal