Kenna’s Reviews > The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom > Status Update

"Later on, during the 1910s, when some mine operators hired welfare workers to investigate their employees’ values, one of them would conclude that life in coal camps was “too simple” and “too socialistic,” in the sense that people all felt they were on “the same level.” Each miner seemed to identify himself as part of a working team, not as a consumer who wanted something his neighbor possessed that he didn’t." lmao