cover image Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry

Priscilla Long, Pricilla Long. Paragon House Publishers, $16.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-55778-465-0

Coal mining, which has often violently shaped American history in terms of industrial capitalism, railroads and unions, is analyzed from its 13th-century English origins to the 1913-1914 Colorado miners' strike. According to PW , Long ``conveys vividly the perilous, filthy, exhausting work of miners, often in their own words.'' Photos. (Oct.)