Coal
Subtitle: a memoir and critique
By: Duane Lockard.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Coal mines and mining -- United States; Coal trade -- United States; Social responsibility of business -- United States
Description: Duane Lockard's Coal is at once a historical account of mining - the explosions, slate falls, black lung, and floodsand a memoir of one family's involvement in it. Four generations of his family have worked in the mines, including Lockard himself, and his book interweaves family letters and diaries with firsthand interviews and literature on the industry to evoke a century's worth of mining and coal town life.

Entwined in the personal story of this coal miner's son who became a Princeton political scientist is Lockard's critique of how the coal industry has behaved as a corporate citizen and how it exemplifies corporate power in American life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-220) and index.