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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: La Vergne : Haymarket Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781642593938
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digging Our Own GravesDDC classification:
  • 363.1196223340973
LOC classification:
  • RC773 .S658 2020
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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