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Black Lung
In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease-and even to acknowledge its existence-resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.
The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health.
Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement-from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties-which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. An extraordinary work of scholarship,Black Lungexposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation.
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Associated factors of anxiety and depressive symptoms among coal miners in Shanxi, China: a cross-sectional study
Background and objectives
Coal miners are exposed to a significant risk of anxiety and depression due to challenging work environment. However, there is a lack of studies comprehensively examining the associated factors of anxiety and depressive symptoms among coal miners. Our study aimed to identify these associated factors among Chinese coal miners in Shanxi Province.
Methods
In August and September 2022, a cross-sectional study was conducted using a cluster sampling method to enroll all workers from the L coal mines in Linfen City, China. Data were collected using a self-designed and administered online questionnaire, which included the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale 10-item (CESD-10) to assess anxiety and depressive symptoms, along with questions on sociodemographics, work-related factors, health status, and lifestyle factors. Logistic regression was used to identify associated factors for anxiety and depressive symptoms. Sensitivity analysis was conducted using linear regression.
Results
A total of 1,027 participants were included in the analysis. Among them, 278 (27.07%) exhibited anxiety symptoms, and 238 (23.17%) showed depressive symptoms. In the multivariable logistic regression, associated factors identified for both anxiety and depressive symptoms included having direct or indirect safety accident experience (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] for anxiety: 1.76, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.29 ~ 2.40; aOR for depression: 1.72, 95% CI: 1.25 ~ 2.38), presence of occupational diseases (aOR for anxiety: 4.00, 95% CI: 1.51 ~ 11.10; aOR for depression: 3.36, 95% CI: 1.25 ~ 9.23), self-reported non-optimal health status (aOR for anxiety: 1.68, 95% CI: 1.19 ~ 2.37; aOR for depression: 2.01, 95% CI: 1.41 ~ 2.85), current alcohol consumption (aOR for anxiety: 1.83, 95% CI: 1.27 ~ 2.66; aOR for depression: 1.64, 95% CI: 1.12 ~ 2.41), and sleep duration of less than 7 hours (aOR for anxiety: 1.84, 1.36 ~ 2.50; aOR for depression: 1.71, 95% CI: 1.25 ~ 2.36). In addition, working in a management position (aOR: 1.99, 95% CI: 1.02 ~ 3.96) was positively associated with anxiety symptoms.
Conclusions
Our study identified key factors associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms among Chinese coal miners. Management was more likely to experience anxiety symptoms. These findings underscore the need for targeted mental health interventions within the coal mining industry to improve their well-being.
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One step enough
\"Now that she's married, Della believes that she and Owen will live happily ever after, but he can't keep his promise to stop working in the coal mines.\"--Provided by the publisher.
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Harlan Miners Speak
The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare.Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s. This edition ofHarlan Miners Speak, with a new introduction by noted historian John C. Hennen, offers readers an in-depth look at a pivotal crisis in the complex history of this controversial form of energy production.
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The British miner in the age of de-industrialization : a political and cultural history
This is a book which challenges received understandings of the place of the miner in contemporary British history, arguing that the British coal miners went through a cyclical movement - from loser to winner and back again - as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the 20th-century.
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Male Coal Miners’ Shared Work Crew Identity and Their Safety Behavior: A Multilevel Mediation Analysis
Coal miners’ unsafe behavior is the primary reason for accidents. This research aims to examine the effect of male coal miners’ shared work crew identity on their safety behavior. A 2-2-1 multilevel mediation model is established based on social identity theory and safety climate theory. To validate the model, a paper-and-pencil survey with male coal miners was carried out in Henan Province, China. A total of 212 valid responses from male coal miners nested in 53 work crews were secured, and Mplus was used to analyze the data. Results show that work crew safety climate fully mediates the effect of male coal miners’ shared work crew identity on their safety behavior. In theory, the findings support that social identity brings a safety climate. In practice, the findings highlight that making safety part of work crew norms improves male coal miners’ safety behavior. Limitations and future research are also discussed.
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On Dark and Bloody Ground
An oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners for Democracy movement to conduct interviews with participants in, and observers of, the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and ’30s. The set of oral histories she collected—the only document of its kind—circulated for many years as an informal typescript volume, acquiring an almost legendary status among those intrigued by the subject. Key selections from it appear here for the first time as a published book, supplemented with introductory material, maps, and photographs. The volume’s vivid, conversational mode invites readers into miners’ lived experiences and helps us understand why they took up arms to fight anti-union forces in some of the nation’s largest labor uprisings.
Published to coincide with the celebration of the Blair Mountain centennial in 2021, On Dark and Bloody Ground includes a preface by public historian Catherine Venable Moore and an afterword by Cecil E. Roberts of the United Mine Workers of America.
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