Early 20th-century American novelist Upton Sinclair explores socialist themes in King Coal and which earlier work based in Chicago?
King Coal King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner. As in his earlier work, "The Jungle", Sinclair uses the novel to express his socialist viewpoint. The book is based on the 1913-1914 Colorado coal strikes and written just after the Ludlow massacre. The sequel to "King Coal" was posthumously published under the title, "The Coal War."
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