Accompanied by informative and urgent essays about the political, environmental, and social challenges facing the region, the book makes a stirring call to change the way we consider the disenfranchised by offering a window into their lives. Coal Hollow : Melanie Light : 9780520246546 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Despite the project’s limited geographical focus, the more than 100 black-and-white images evoke the topical and the transcendent: laborers stoop in a sprawling matrix of fields a girl clutches her stuffed bear as her family is evicted from their house couples slow dance in the moody light of a club. Coal Hollow by Melanie Light, 9780520246546, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 15.50. Combination of Ken Lights poignant images and in their own distinctive voices the residents of Coal Hollow-a fictional composite of the West Virginia communities the Lights surveyed (jacket front flyleaf). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

With Forewords by Orville Schell and Robert S. For five years, the Lights spent time with the people who struggle to survive in this economically troubled and socially stratified flatland, where workers are exploited and the subprime mortgage crisis has brought a wave of poverty. Buy Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories Volume 4 by Ken Light (Photographer), Melanie Light, Robert Reich (Foreword by) online at Alibris. Slight rubbing to jacket (chiefly at extremities) else a near fine copy internally. COAL HOLLOW: PHOTOGRAPHS AND ORAL HISTORIES. There, 1.6 million migrant workers toil to pick crops valued at more than $34.8 billion a year. In this stunning monograph, the husband-and-wife duo (Coal Hollow) present a searing indictment of industrial agribusiness and institutional failure in California’s Central Valley, the great swath of farmland that turns out half of U.S.-grown fruit, nuts, and vegetables, as well as the greatest share of the country’s dairy products.