Smith, Barbara Ellen.

Digging Our Own Graves : Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (261 pages)

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.

9781642593938


Lungs-Dust diseases-Social aspects.


Electronic books.

RC773 .S658 2020

363.1196223340973