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Étienne Lantier finds work in at the Le Voreux coal mine in northern France. He soon sees the struggles of the miners, working, usually from childhood on, in passages under the earth prone to collapse and in which the air can lead to asphixiation, for wages that don't even pay for enough food to keep the family from starvation and for enough coal to keep the family warm. Conditions grow worse, and Étienne becomes a leader in the coal miners' community, urging the miners to strike. And the miners
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I read this book in highschool and it has stuck with me since. I have been reading Upton Sinclair's Oil! and I think I'd like to re-read Germinal when I'm done, two takes on a similar class struggle between miners and the people that own them.
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