Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism -- 2. Work in the Mines -- 3. The Company Town and the State -- 4. Community in Crisis -- 5. The Long Depression -- 6. The Second Industrial Revolution -- 7. The Politics of Production -- 8. The...

This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite's trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that...