| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. By Thomas G. Andrews. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 386 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-03101-2.)
For those who perceive environmental and social justice as inseparably bound, Thomas G. Andrews's recent book is welcome news. Andrews engagingly weaves together labor and environmental history; his themes are timely, whether he is discussing corporate irresponsibility and power, the struggles of working people for dignity and justice, or the ways dependence on fossil fuels structure not only these conflicts, but the society in which they are played out. This is an important book.	1
Andrews builds on the works of E. A. Wrigley and William Cronon while laying out how the emergent fossil fuel–based economy structured economic development in the late nineteenth century. He is at his best pointing out coal's simultaneously visible and invisible impact on the Colorado landscape. The result of climatic change and geological processes that span 70 million years, coal provided the opportunity to overcome the limits of the organic, muscle- and wood-based economy. Andrews notes that despite coal's omnipresence, photographic representations revealed "nary a chunk or pile of coal," and middle-class use of electrified streetcars to escape the stench and smoke of industry was deceptively enabled by the fuel (p. 58).	. . .

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