"Central Appalachia and South Wales were built to extract coal, and faced with coal's decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, labor unrest, and out-migration. After Coal focuses on coalfield residents who chose not to leave, but instead remained in their communities and...

Introduction / F. Douglas Scutchfield and Randy Wykoff -- Appalachia : An Introduction to the Region / Ron R. Roach -- Appalachian Health : An Overview of Mortality and Morbidity / Julie Marshall and Logan Thomas -- The Social Determinants of Health / Kate Beatty and Melissa White -- Health...

"This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginias Black working class gradually picked up steam...

Radical Elders, or a Multigenerational Red Thread -- Busting Loose at Marshall -- New Boundaries for Local 1199 -- "1199 Comes to Appalachia" -- Law, Busting Unions, Building Unions -- A Kentucky Saga and a Strike for Survival -- Big Win and Tough Losses, 1976-1980 -- Survival in the Time of...

Introduction. A joke told too many times -- "Little bitty cars" : the Department of Energy, oil decontrol, and the anticonservation backlash -- "Rich, black veins of the future" : the United Mine Workers, railroad deregulation, and the political economy of coal -- "The model-t of reactors" : the...