Coal miners' wives portraits of endurance / Carol A.B. Giesen.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Raising Consciousness: An Overview; 2 Traditional Views: The Backgrounds of Their Lives; 3 Unseen Dangers: The Perils of Mining; 4 Living Day by Day: Women's Work and Widowhood; 5 Coping: Work, Faith, and Denial; 6 Today and Tomorrow: Company Issues and Personal Issues; Appendix A Personal Portraits; Appendix B Other Women, Other Occupations; Appendix C Research Methods and Findings; Appendix D The Interview Schedule; References; Index.

Few people in America today live with the dangers and deprivations that Appalachian coal mining families experience. But to the eighteen West Virginia women Carol Giesen interviewed for this book, hard times are just everyday life. These coal miners' wives, ranging in age from late teens to eighty-five, tell of a way of life dominated by coal mining --

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