Underworld: Our Underground Coal Economy

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By Jeanne Marie Laskas · GQ · May 2007

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"Why do we even have coal mines? That question is what led Jeanne Marie Laskas to spend a few weeks 500 feet underground, getting to know the men behind the invisible economy this country couldn't live without."

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