SCRIP: How the Coal Companies Impoverished Harlan County
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What if you didn’t have to pay your workers? Not really, not in cash? What if you could make your own currency and make it worth whatever you wanted it to be? Scrip was a system designed to pay miners in pinto beans and corn meal from the company store and make billions in profits for the coal companies.
• A history of Harlan County, Kentucky during the coal wars, including the Battle of Evarts
• Map of each coal camp, as well as several county maps
• Lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs, some never before published
• Color photographs of over 800 different pieces of Harlan County coal scrip
