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Author Smith, Barbara Ellen

Title Digging Our Own Graves Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
Published La Vergne : Haymarket Books, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (261 p.)
Contents Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Interviews -- Chapter 1: Diagnosing the Problem -- Chapter 2: The Medical Politics of Black Lung -- Chapter 3: Where Is the Disease? -- Chapter 4: The Contagious Spread of Rebellion -- A Photo Gallery by Earl Dotter: With Images from His Historic Workplace Collection -- Chapter 5: Resistance to Disease -- Chapter 6: Reviving the Movement -- Chapter 7: Black Lung and the Politics of Union Reform -- Chapter 8: Reckonings -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community's struggle against the deadly black lung disease
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Lungs -- Dust diseases -- Social aspects
Coal miners -- Diseases -- United States
Coal miners -- Labor unions.
Coal miners -- Diseases
Coal miners -- Labor unions
Lungs -- Dust diseases -- Social aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Dotter, Earl
ISBN 9781642593938
1642593931