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Barbara Ellen Smith\'s Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease (Haymarket Books, 2020) charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day resurgence of severe, lethal disease. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves. This excerpt from the newly updated edition features the photographs of Earl Dotter as well as a new introduction and conclusion from the author. |
