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Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century

byTrish Kahle

Trish Kahle places coal miners at the center of twentieth-century American democracy. Mining communities demanded public power, workplace rights, health protections, and a voice in decisions about the energy systems their labor sustained. Yet companies and government institutions repeatedly limited those claims while shifting environmental and bodily costs onto workers. Moving from the New Deal through deindustrialization, the book connects labor history to environmental justice and energy policy. It asks who benefits from abundant power, who bears its risks, and what democratic energy governance could require.

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Publication date

2024-10-29

Format

Paperback

Pages

448

ISBN

9780231215459