Coal Feeds My Family: Subsistence, Energy, and Industry in Central Appalachia

Across Central Appalachia, you can see the message scrawled across bumper stickers, protest signs, and billboards: “Coal Feeds My Family”. The metaphor of coal feeding families is one that stresses the economic importance of this extractive industry to the economy of the industrialized rural mountai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: M. Joseph Aloi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED Edizioni Universitarie 2018-11-01
Series:Relations
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Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/1398