List of books about coal mining

Non-fiction

This is a list of non-fiction books related to coal mining:

• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (2006) by Jeff Goodell^[1]
• Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines (2000)
• Coal River (2008)
• Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining (2007)
• Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal (2007)
• The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)

David John Douglass

• Pit Life in County Durham, History Workshop, 1972
• Pit Talk in County Durham, History Workshop, 1973
• A Miner's Life (with Joel Krieger), Law Book Co Australasia, 1983
• Tell Us Lies About The Miners, DAM, 1985
• Come And Wet This Truncheon, DAM/Canary Press, 1986
• A Year Of Our Lives, Hooligan Press, 1986
• Pit Sense versus the State: a history of militant miners in the Doncaster area, Phoenix Press, year unknown, ISBN 0-948984-26-0
• All Power to the Imagination!, Class War Federation, 1999, ISBN 0-9537347-0-6
• Strike, Not the End of the Story: Reflections on the Major Coal Mining Strikes in Britain, National Coal Mining Museum for England Publications 4, Overton, 2005, ISBN 187292509X
• Geordies — Wa Mental, Christie Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-873976-34-0
• The Wheel's Still in Spin, Christie Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-873976-36-4
• Ghost Dancers, Christie Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-873976-40-1

A booklist:

• North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Nicholas Wood Memorial Library. History of mining in the UK: some useful books. 2014

Fiction

• Tilly Trotter by Catherine Cookson (1980) and other books by this author
• King Coal (1917)
• "Germinal" by Emile Zola (1885)

See also

• Burning the Future: Coal in America (film)
• Mountain Top Removal (film)

References

1. Goodell, Jeff. Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. ISBN 978-0-618-87224-4.

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