Barbara Ellen Smith

Digging Our Own Graves

Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease
Fotograf: Dotter, Earl

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Produktbeschreibung

This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading historians of Appalachia documents a community’s struggle against the deadly black lung disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781642594195
• ISBN-10: 1642594199
• Artikelnr.: 59586350

Autorenporträt

Barbara Ellen Smith is professor of women's and gender studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One:Whose Body?
Chapter Two: The Antiseptic Physician
Chapter Three: Where Is the Disease?
Chapter Four: The Contagious Spread of Rebellion
Chapter Five: Resistance to Disease
Chapter Six: Carry It On
Chapter Seven: Black Lung and the Politics of Union Reform
Chapter Eight: When theBills Come Due
Conclusion