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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 the Appalachian
coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power
reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health
crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal
industry. Barbara Ellen Smith 's essential study, now with an
updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners
and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in
1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental
justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through
extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as
an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities
struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor,
mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their
own graves.
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 the Appalachian
coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power
reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health
crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal
industry. Barbara Ellen Smith's essential study, now with an
updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners
and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in
1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental
justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through
extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as
an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities
struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor,
mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their
own graves.
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