Books against a bleak coal-mining company-town backdrop?

There's something I find intriguing about the hopeless, dirty, rural energy around West Virginia coal mining in the mid and late-mid 20th century. Are there any books that have a similar emotional and tonal energy as, say Coal by Taylor Childers (song, not a book) or the town backdrop in the movie October Sky? I'm not super picky on specific genre but the particular flavor of quiet, almost-hopeless desperation doing dangerous work in the face of enormous, heartless enterprise for something as raw and physical as coal mining is interesting to me.

Thanks for any reccs!