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Divestment Days and the “War on Coal”
Next weekend, February 13 and 14, hundreds of cities around the world will witness actions as part of Global Divestment Days, calling for an end to fossil fuel addiction and a transition to a clean-energy future. The Fossil Free coalition … Continue reading
The Paradox of Labor in Reality TV
While hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their jobs and are looking for work due to the recession, the one place that full employment still exists is on reality TV. Whether reality performers are running a beauty salon in … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues
Tagged Coal, coal mining, reality TV, television producers, television workers, Thom Beers
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Industrial Heritage and the Value of Working-Class Memory
A year or so ago, I was helping one of my sociology students get started on an essay. She wanted to write, she said, “something on coalmining communities.” I suggested she narrow the topic, since coal mining was, until relatively … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues, Working-Class Culture
Tagged coal mining, industrial heritage, memory, Snowdon, working-class history
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Mountains or Jobs: A False Question
In June, I was lucky enough to be among some 250 protestors who walked for five days from Marmet, West Virginia, fifty miles south to Blair Mountain. We traced the path coal miners had taken in 1921, which culminated in … Continue reading