List of books about coal mining
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This is a list of non-fiction books related to coal mining
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Coal mining
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...
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- Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy FutureBig Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy FutureBig Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future is a book by Jeff Goodell which claims that coal mining is one of America's largest and most influential industries...
(2006) - Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal MinesBoys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal MinesBoys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines is a 2000 book by Robert McIntosh, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The book is about child labour in Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with special reference to the history of boys, aged 8 to 15, who worked in coal mines...
(2000) - Coal River (book)Coal River (book)Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love is a book by Michael Shnayerson....
(2008) - King Coal (book)King Coal (book)King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner. As in his earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair uses the novel to express his...
(1917) - Miners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal MiningMiners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal MiningMiners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining by Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston is a 2007 book which is part of the Studies in Labour History series...
(2007) - Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big CoalMoving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big CoalMoving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal is a 2007 book published by the University of Kentucky Press. The award-winning book is written by Virginia resident Penny Loeb, a former senior editor at U.S...
(2007) - The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)