Hal Warner, a college-educated son of privilege, takes a job under a false name in a Colorado mining camp owned by the General Fuel Company. He learns how miners are cheated on the weight of their coal, spied on and kept from organising, and after an explosion traps men underground he fights to force the company to open the mine.
Sinclair’s novel of the coal wars, written after the Ludlow massacre and introduced by Georg Brandes. Download the free EPUB.