Title: Coal
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Coal trade, Coal mines and mining, Social responsibility of business
Places: United States
LC classification: TN805.A5 L63 1998