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"Face Boss tells a story that few people have heard: what it is really like to labor inside the dark and dangerous world of a vast underground coal mine. With unflinching honesty, Michael Guillerman recalls his nearly eighteen years of working as both a union miner and a salaried section foreman - or "face boss"--At the Peabody Coal Company's Camp No. 2 mine in Union County, Kentucky." "Guillerman undertook this memoir because of the many misconceptions about coal mining that were evidenced most recently in the media coverage of the 2006 Sago Mine disaster. Face Boss sheds some much-needed…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2009University of Tennessee Press · 352 pages · 9781572336490
BiographyCoal minersCoal miningHistoryLabor union membersMining campsPeabody Coal CompanySocial conditions