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Coal cultures : picturing mining landscapes and communities
\"Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but it often took place in picturesque landscapes, so that its black spoil heaps became a central symbol of the degradation of pastoral life by the demands of an extractive industry. Throughout Europe and the USA photographers have pictured the characteristic landscapes of the industry, and continue to do so as strip mining devastates huge areas of land. Not only landscape photography but also documentary, portraiture, photojournalism and art photography have been used in order to portray mines and miners. This book presents three interlinked strands of investigation. The first is the way in which the production of coal created paradigmatic communities grounded in particular landscapes. The second concerns the role of photography in exploring, delineating and critiquing mining communities. This in turn involves an examination of the aesthetic and social characteristics of a number of genres of photography. Lastly, it considers the growth and decline of these sites, the geographic shift of the industry to other places, and the re-presentation of traditional localities through the lens of the heritage industry and industrial tourism.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., Paul Carpenter column
[...] they have been obscenely subsidized by government for decades, at the expense of the railroad industry, even though trucks use 10 times as much fuel to haul the same amount of cargo. [...] truckers are not required to pay their fair share in tolls and fuel taxes, even though studies have shown that one large truck causes 9,600 times as much road damage as a single car.
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St. Petersburg Times, Fla., Ivan Penn column
[...] a new plant may require the Public Service Commission to assess whether there is a need for a primary power source and whether the proposed unit is the most cost-effective available, said Todd Brown, a PSC spokesman. The base rate freeze does not apply to the fuel rate, which rises and falls based on the cost of coal and natural gas.
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