Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease Memoir_Gift_Guide Gormflaith

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Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease Memoir_Gift_Guide GormflaithEmployment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be nearly 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 rank and file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. The