King Coal - Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair's first novel about the conditions of miners in America, and documents the strikes of 1914-15 in Colorado.

Similar to The Jungle and its exposing of conditions and corruption in the Meat Packing centre of Chicago. Readers should note that the text does contain some sexism and racism.

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