Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Earl Dotter, Photographer
Essay Sections:
Introduction | Town Life | Health Issues and Healthcare | Working at the Mines | Mining and the Environment | Recommended Resources
Acknowledgements. Frances Abbott, Katie Rawson, and Sarah Toton contributed the written portions of this piece.
Recommended Resources:
Print Materials:
General:
Amberg, Rob. "'Photographs of Lasting Value': An Interview with Earl Dotter." Southern Quarterly 34.1 (Fall 1995).
Dotter, Earl. The Quiet Sickness: A Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America. American Industrial Hygiene Association, 1998.
Gaventa, John. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
Gaventa, John, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Alex Willingham. Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Stewart, Kathleen. A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Witt, Matt. Photographs by Earl Dotter. In Our Blood: Four Coal-Mining Families. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1979.
Coal Industry:
Abramson, Rudy. "Mountaintop Removal: Necessity or Nightmare?" Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter 2001): 20-24.
Barry, Joyce. "Mountaineers Are Always Free? An Examination of the Effects of Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia." Women’s Studies Quarterly 29 (Spring-Summer 2001): 116-130.
Fox, Maier B. "Afterword: Prospects for the UMWA." In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? Ed. J. Laslett. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996 (545-554).
Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2003.
Health Issues:
Baldwin, Fred D. "Access to Care: Overcoming the Rural Physician Shortage." Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (May-August1999): 8-15.
Barnett, Elizabeth, and others. Heart Disease in Appalachia: An Atlas of County Economic Conditions, Mortality, and Medical Care Resources. Morgantown, W.Va.: Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, 1998.
Bauer, William M, and Bruce Growick. "Rehabilitation Counseling in Appalachian America." Journal of Rehabilitation 69.3 (2003): 18-24.
Casto, James E. "Rx for the Rural Health-Care Shortage." Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 29 (September-December 1996): 22-27.
Derickson, Alan. "The Role of the United Mine Workers in the Prevention of Work-Related Respiratory Disease, 1890-1968." In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? Ed. J. Laslett. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996 (224-238).
Ellis, Betty. A Comprehensive Bibliography of Health Care in Appalachia. Lexington, KY: Appalachian Center of the University of Kentucky, 1988.
Halverson, Joel A., Lin Ma, E. James Harner, Robert Q. Hanham, and Valerie E. Braham. Adult Obesity in Appalachia: An Atlas of Geographic Disparities. Morgantown: West Virginia University, Prevention Research Center, Center for Healthy Communities, 2004.
Mulcahy, Richard. "A New Deal for Coal Miners: The UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund and the Reorganization of Health Care in Appalachia." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring 1996): 29-52.
"Power of Illness & the Promise of Health in Appalachia." Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring 2000).
Rasmussen, Donald L. "Black Lung in Southern Appalachia." The American Journal of Nursing 70.3 (1970).
Mining and the Environment:
Bell, Fred and Laurance J. Donnelly. Mining and its Impact on the Environment. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Burns, Shirley Stewart. Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007.
Johnnsen, Kristin, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall. Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn't There. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2005.
Montrie, Chad. To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Reece, Erik. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Film:
Harlan County, USA. 1976 dir. Barbara Kopple.
Justice in the Coalfields. 1995 dir. Anne Lewis.
To Save the Land and People. 1999 dir. Anne Lewis.
Links:
General:
Amberg, Rob and Earl Dotter. "The Engaged Observer." Southern Changes 17.2 (1995).
http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc17-2_003
Appalachian Studies Association
http://www.appalachianstudies.org/
Earl Dotter
http://www.earldotter.com/
The Mountain Eagle
http://www.themountaineagle.com/
Coal Industry:
United Mine Workers of America
http://www.umwa.org/
WV Coal Mining
http://www.wvcoalmining.com/
Appalachia Coal [Articles and oral histories]
http://www.appalachiacoal.com/
"Coal, Industry, Labor, Railroads, Transportation." Appalachian Studies Bibliography, 1994-2004.
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/bibliography/coal.htm
Health:
"Health and Medicine." Appalachian Studies Bibliography, 1994-2004.
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/bibliography/health.htm
West Virginia University Prevention Research Center
http://prc.hsc.wvu.edu/
Mountaintop Removal and the Environment:
Bringing Down the Mountains, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
http://www.wvhighlands.org/Pages/BDTM.html
Coal Mining, Environmental Literacy Council
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/1122.html
End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Action and Resource Center
http://ilovemountains.org/
Environmental Impacts of Coal Mining, World Coal Institute
http://www.worldcoal.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=126
Mountaintop removal mining, Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining
General:
Amberg, Rob. "'Photographs of Lasting Value': An Interview with Earl Dotter." Southern Quarterly 34.1 (Fall 1995).
Dotter, Earl. The Quiet Sickness: A Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America. American Industrial Hygiene Association, 1998.
Gaventa, John. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
Gaventa, John, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Alex Willingham. Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Stewart, Kathleen. A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Witt, Matt. Photographs by Earl Dotter. In Our Blood: Four Coal-Mining Families. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1979.
Coal Industry:
Abramson, Rudy. "Mountaintop Removal: Necessity or Nightmare?" Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter 2001): 20-24.
Barry, Joyce. "Mountaineers Are Always Free? An Examination of the Effects of Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia." Women’s Studies Quarterly 29 (Spring-Summer 2001): 116-130.
Fox, Maier B. "Afterword: Prospects for the UMWA." In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? Ed. J. Laslett. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996 (545-554).
Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2003.
Health Issues:
Baldwin, Fred D. "Access to Care: Overcoming the Rural Physician Shortage." Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (May-August1999): 8-15.
Barnett, Elizabeth, and others. Heart Disease in Appalachia: An Atlas of County Economic Conditions, Mortality, and Medical Care Resources. Morgantown, W.Va.: Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, 1998.
Bauer, William M, and Bruce Growick. "Rehabilitation Counseling in Appalachian America." Journal of Rehabilitation 69.3 (2003): 18-24.
Casto, James E. "Rx for the Rural Health-Care Shortage." Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 29 (September-December 1996): 22-27.
Derickson, Alan. "The Role of the United Mine Workers in the Prevention of Work-Related Respiratory Disease, 1890-1968." In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? Ed. J. Laslett. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996 (224-238).
Ellis, Betty. A Comprehensive Bibliography of Health Care in Appalachia. Lexington, KY: Appalachian Center of the University of Kentucky, 1988.
Halverson, Joel A., Lin Ma, E. James Harner, Robert Q. Hanham, and Valerie E. Braham. Adult Obesity in Appalachia: An Atlas of Geographic Disparities. Morgantown: West Virginia University, Prevention Research Center, Center for Healthy Communities, 2004.
Mulcahy, Richard. "A New Deal for Coal Miners: The UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund and the Reorganization of Health Care in Appalachia." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring 1996): 29-52.
"Power of Illness & the Promise of Health in Appalachia." Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring 2000).
Rasmussen, Donald L. "Black Lung in Southern Appalachia." The American Journal of Nursing 70.3 (1970).
Mining and the Environment:
Bell, Fred and Laurance J. Donnelly. Mining and its Impact on the Environment. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Burns, Shirley Stewart. Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007.
Johnnsen, Kristin, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall. Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn't There. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2005.
Montrie, Chad. To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Reece, Erik. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Film:
Harlan County, USA. 1976 dir. Barbara Kopple.
Justice in the Coalfields. 1995 dir. Anne Lewis.
To Save the Land and People. 1999 dir. Anne Lewis.
Links:
General:
Amberg, Rob and Earl Dotter. "The Engaged Observer." Southern Changes 17.2 (1995).
http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc17-2_003
Appalachian Studies Association
http://www.appalachianstudies.org/
Earl Dotter
http://www.earldotter.com/
The Mountain Eagle
http://www.themountaineagle.com/
Coal Industry:
United Mine Workers of America
http://www.umwa.org/
WV Coal Mining
http://www.wvcoalmining.com/
Appalachia Coal [Articles and oral histories]
http://www.appalachiacoal.com/
"Coal, Industry, Labor, Railroads, Transportation." Appalachian Studies Bibliography, 1994-2004.
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/bibliography/coal.htm
Health:
"Health and Medicine." Appalachian Studies Bibliography, 1994-2004.
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/bibliography/health.htm
West Virginia University Prevention Research Center
http://prc.hsc.wvu.edu/
Mountaintop Removal and the Environment:
Bringing Down the Mountains, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
http://www.wvhighlands.org/Pages/BDTM.html
Coal Mining, Environmental Literacy Council
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/1122.html
End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Action and Resource Center
http://ilovemountains.org/
Environmental Impacts of Coal Mining, World Coal Institute
http://www.worldcoal.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=126
Mountaintop removal mining, Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining
Essay Sections:
Introduction | Town Life | Health Issues and Healthcare | Working at the Mines | Mining and the Environment | Recommended Resources
