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TITLE:
Dying hard : industrial carnage in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland / Elliott Leyton.
Former Title:
Dying hard : the ravages of Industrial Carnage
By:
Leyton, Elliott, 1939-
Publication Date:
2004
Publication Information:
Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, N.L. : Boulder Publications,
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Physical Description:
167 p. : ill.
Subject Term:
Miners -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. Lawrence -- Biography.

Miners -- Diseases -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. Lawrence.

Miners -- Health and hygiene -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. Lawrence.
Geographic Term:
St. Lawrence (N.L.) -- Biography.

St. Lawrence (N.L.) -- History.
Summary:
Dying Hard is a series of first-hand accounts by miners suffering from industrial diseases contracted while working in the fluorspar mines of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. It tells the stories of men waiting for death to relieve them from the continuing agony of cancer and silicosis; and of the women who coped with the burden of raising children while their husbands' health deteriorated.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780973027143
General Note:
Originally published as : Dying hard : the ravages of Industrial Carnage (1975)
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