coal

A Portrait of a Modern Day Union Man on the Picket Line

Union leader Bryan Kelly and more than 1,000 other coal miners in Alabama are picketing hedge-fund ownership over broken promises and cut pay. It’s another chapter in a long history of miners who pioneered the art of the strike — to the benefit of all

The Blue-Collar Workers Going Green

Socially conscious and transient, the new blue-collar face of the green energy movement sees opportunities where their elders don’t. Now can they save small-town America?