Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust

by Richard J. Callahan Jr.

Book Overview

Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining as they draw upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work. He traces innovation and continuity in religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253352371
• ISBN13: 9780253352378
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher