Coal mining hazards kettle bottom

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Fisher mines this dark chapter in American labor history, delving into the human condition by way of inhumane conditions. Her pillars are the tools of her craft: authentic voices, well-researched vernacular, and moving, verisimilar details of daily life. P illars, we learn in Diane Gilliam Fisher's Kettle Bottom, are temporary load-bearing walls of coal in the "rooms" of mines. Their removal presents a particular hazard, as one speaker tells us:. American popular culture has a certain fascination with coal mining. Or maybe coal mining is wrapped up in our collective guilt about having others do our dirty work for us. At a certain point in a collection like this, however, creativity must take over where content leaves off.

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