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Peer reviewedStevens, Robert L.; Fogel, Jared A. – Social Education, 1999
Examines three of the changes wrought by coal mining: (1) the miner's working conditions; (2) the establishment of company towns; and (3) the violence that ensued when miners from Harlan County, Kentucky, referred to as "Bloody Harlan," tried to better their lives by joining labor unions. (CMK)
Descriptors: Coal, Labor Conditions, Labor Problems, Mining
