Miners' Lung (book)
Miners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining by Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston is a 2007 book (
mine collapses, explosions, suffocation) may be subject to years of pain, laboured breathing and eventual death. McIvor and Johnston relate the story of how the dust created by the picks, hammers, and pneumatic tools "crept deep into the lungs of the otherwise powerfully built, healthy workers, eventually incapacitating them, ruining their bodies and killing them".[1][2][3]
See also
- Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future(2006)
- Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines(2000)
- Coal River (2008)
- King Coal(1917)
- Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal (2007)
References
- PMC 2570447.
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