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This book offers us a long view on the power of organizing around workplace health and safety that can help frontline workers -- from teachers to grocery and sanitation workers -- strategize now, but also develop long-term strategies for workplace organizing around the impacts of the less-understood, long-term impacts of COVID-19, which are going to force us to bring disability politics more centrally into workplace organizing. --Jacobin Digging Our Own Graves is a lesson on a public health disaster. Smith explores the deep roots of a worker power struggle in Appalachia that continues today. --Celeste Monforton (Fellow) Collegium Ramazzini A valuable contribution to this important history. --Grant Crandall Barbara Smith's updated edition of her book, Digging Our Own Graves provides a significant addition to the history of the battles against black lung from its beginnings to our current efforts against resurgent severe disease. --Bob Cohen

""This book offers us a long view on the power of organizing around workplace health and safety that can help frontline workers — from teachers to grocery and sanitation workers — strategize now, but also develop long-term strategies for workplace organizing around the impacts of the less-understood, long-term impacts of COVID-19, which are going to force us to bring disability politics more centrally into workplace organizing."" —Jacobin ""Digging Our Own Graves is a lesson on a public health disaster.  Smith explores the deep roots of a worker power struggle in Appalachia that continues today."" —Celeste Monforton (Fellow) Collegium Ramazzini “A valuable contribution to this important history.” —Grant Crandall “Barbara Smith’s updated edition of her book, Digging Our Own Graves provides a significant addition to the history of the battles against black lung from its beginnings to our current efforts against resurgent severe disease.” —Bob Cohen

This book offers us a long view on the power of organizing around workplace health and safety that can help frontline workers - from teachers to grocery and sanitation workers - strategize now, but also develop long-term strategies for workplace organizing around the impacts of the less-understood, long-term impacts of COVID-19, which are going to force us to bring disability politics more centrally into workplace organizing. -Jacobin Digging Our Own Graves is a lesson on a public health disaster. Smith explores the deep roots of a worker power struggle in Appalachia that continues today. -Celeste Monforton (Fellow) Collegium Ramazzini A valuable contribution to this important history. -Grant Crandall Barbara Smith's updated edition of her book, Digging Our Own Graves provides a significant addition to the history of the battles against black lung from its beginnings to our current efforts against resurgent severe disease. -Bob Cohen

"""This book offers us a long view on the power of organizing around workplace health and safety that can help frontline workers — from teachers to grocery and sanitation workers — strategize now, but also develop long-term strategies for workplace organizing around the impacts of the less-understood, long-term impacts of COVID-19, which are going to force us to bring disability politics more centrally into workplace organizing."" —Jacobin ""Digging Our Own Graves is a lesson on a public health disaster.  Smith explores the deep roots of a worker power struggle in Appalachia that continues today."" —Celeste Monforton (Fellow) Collegium Ramazzini “A valuable contribution to this important history.” —Grant Crandall “Barbara Smith’s updated edition of her book, Digging Our Own Graves provides a significant addition to the history of the battles against black lung from its beginnings to our current efforts against resurgent severe disease.” —Bob Cohen"

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Barbara Ellen Smith is professor of women's and gender studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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