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‘Rape Rooms’: How W.Va. Women Paid Off Coal Company Debts (xpost from Good Reads)
This thread by Judi Lynn is shocking. I have read about many different kinds of exploitation in the coal industry but had never heard about this 'Esau' credit before.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/rape-rooms-how-w-va-women-paid-off-coal-company-debts/