- Fiction, Coal mines and mining, Coal miners, Labor movement
**King Coal** is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner.
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- Author
- Upton Sinclair
- First published
- 1917
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, eBooksLib, Tatran
- Editions
- 86
- Language
- German, nor, yid, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781549755798
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“Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the agitation for social justice, and who have also enrolled their art in the service of a set purpose.”
Upton Sinclair, Jr., was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. --Wikipedia
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