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E57: West Virginia Mine Wars, part 1

Working Class History

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The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

Most miners in West Virginia are the highest margin of miners that lived in company towns, as opposed to an independent town. Company towns sprung up all over Southern West Virginia with the coal rush. All aspects of society were controlled by their bosses, right, the coal companies? "It wasn't a very democratic place to live," Catherine Moore says.

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