King Coal

Description:

**King Coal** is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner. As in his earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair uses the novel to express his socialist viewpoint. The book is based on the 1913-1914 Colorado coal strikes and written just after the Ludlow massacre. The sequel to *King Coal* was posthumously published under the title, *The Coal War*. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Coal))

subjects: Fiction,  Coal mines and mining,  Coal miners,  Labor movement,  Coal Miners' Strike,  Colorado,  1913-1914,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, political,  Colorado, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Labor unions,  Organizing