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Alan Derickson is Professor of Labor Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University and author of Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America, Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster, and Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925.

Alan Derickson is Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and History at Pennsylvania State University. His book Workers¿ Health, Workers¿ Democracy: The Western Miners¿ Struggle, 1891¿1925 was the recipient of the Philip Taft Labor History Award. He is the author most recently of Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness.

In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how for decades after methods of prevention were known hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease -- and even to acknowledge its existence -- resulted in a n...

Required reading for those interested in the life and death of health policy initiatives... Valuable primer on health policy." -- JAMA"Will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers... and anyone interested in a fairer and healthier society." -- New England Journal of Medicine