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King Coal: A Novel

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
11 hours 22 minutes
ISBN
9781802565638
Published
26 April 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Upton Sinclair
  • muckraking
  • satire
  • injustice
  • investigative journalism
  • American
  • political
  • social
  • justice
  • corruption

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Description

Hal Warner, a rich young fellow determined to find the truth for himself about conditions in the mines, runs away from home and adopts the alias Joe Smith. After being turned away by one coal mine for fear of Hal being a union organizer, he gets a job in another coal mine operated by the General Fuel Company, or GFC. In the mines he befriends many of the workers, and realizes their misery and exploitation at the hands of the bosses.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

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