Coal
Subtitle: A Memoir and Critique
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780813917849
Subjects: Biography: historical; Biography: political; Coal & solid fuel industries; Mining industry; Social history; Urban communities; United States; General; Business And Society; Chemical And Mineral Industries (Economic Aspects); Business & Economics; History - General History; Social responsibility of business; Business/Economics; Social responsibility of busin; Industries - General; Coal mines and mining; Coal trade
First sentence: IN THE SPRING OF 1941 when I was nineteen I pestered the superintendent of the mine where my father worked as a coal loader until he finally let me satisfy a curiosity I had harbored as far back as my memory could reach-to find out what it was like to work inside a coal mine.