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Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields

Subject to Dust

by Richard J. Callahan

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • 16.3 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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Exploring themes of work and labour in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Junior, offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Drawing upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work, Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining. He traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining, including the spaces and social structures of coal towns, the working bodies of miners, the anxieties of their families, and the struggle toward organized labour. Building on oral histories, folklore, folksongs, and vernacular forms of spirituality, this rich and engaging narrative recovers a social history of ordinary working people through religion.
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  • Author

    Richard J. Callahan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Indiana University Press

  • Published

    November 2008

  • Weight

    573g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780253352378

  • ISBN-10

    0253352371

  • Eden Code

    1229562

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