Oh my goodness. I have no idea how accurate any of this was, but I said to myself as I was reading it: no matter how terrible my life may become I will always be grateful to not be one of these poor coal miners!
Sounds like Emile Zola's Germinal.
85 posted on 07/31/2012 5:05:50 AM PDT by Moltke
("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")