Soft Coal, Hard Choices

Soft Coal, Hard Choices
Author: Price Van Meter Fishback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195067258

Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions.

Soft Coal, Hard Choices

Soft Coal, Hard Choices
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Total Pages:
Release: 1992
Genre: Bituminous coal industry
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Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions

Power, Culture, and Conflict in the Coalfields

Power, Culture, and Conflict in the Coalfields
Author: Roger Fagge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This text provides a comparative perspective on two major coalfields, in order to allow a historically constructed view of the patterns of experience and behaviour in mining communities.