Description:
This book is about the men who worked involuntarily in the Banner Coal Mine, owned by the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. And it is about the repercussions and consequences that followed an explosion at the mine in the spring of 1911 that killed 128 convict miners.
Review Quotes: "By linking convict labor and mine safety [the authors] create a field in which new insights are possible . . . [w]ell written and organized, nicely illustrated, and exhaustively researched."--Journal of Southern History