King Coal

By Upton Sinclair

Subjects: 1913-1914, Coal mines and mining, Labor movement, Fiction, political, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Coal miners, Fiction, Coal Miners' Strike, Colorado, Organizing, Colorado, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general, Labor unions

Description: **King Coal** is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner. As in his earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair uses the novel to express his socialist viewpoint. The book is based on the 1913-1914 Colorado coal strikes and written just after the Ludlow massacre. The sequel to *King Coal* was posthumously published under the title, *The Coal War*. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Coal))