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In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease-and even to acknowledge its existence-resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.

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In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease-and even to acknowledge its existence-resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.
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Alan Derickson is Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and History at Pennsylvania State University. His book Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925 was the recipient of the Philip Taft Labor History Award. He is the author most recently of Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness .