Technology, Labor and Industrial Structure of the U. S. Coal Industry
Technology, Labor and Industrial Structure of the U. S. Coal Industry

Author: Alexander Mackenzie Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9781138478350

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Originally published in 1979, this book examines many of the contemporary challenges and opportunities of the U.S.coal industry by examining the process by which a capitalist economy approriates natural resources for production. Contradiction, opposition and struggle between miners and coal mine operators are charted and the process mediated by the capitalist mode of production is discussed as manifested and embodied in the development of particular coal mining technologies.

Coal
Coal

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2007-12-21

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 030911022X

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Coal will continue to provide a major portion of energy requirements in the United States for at least the next several decades. It is imperative that accurate information describing the amount, location, and quality of the coal resources and reserves be available to fulfill energy needs. It is also important that the United States extract its coal resources efficiently, safely, and in an environmentally responsible manner. A renewed focus on federal support for coal-related research, coordinated across agencies and with the active participation of the states and industrial sector, is a critical element for each of these requirements. Coal focuses on the research and development needs and priorities in the areas of coal resource and reserve assessments, coal mining and processing, transportation of coal and coal products, and coal utilization.

Monthly Labor Review
Monthly Labor Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1993-10

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Soft Coal, Hard Choices
Soft Coal, Hard Choices

Author: Price V. Fishback

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992-05-28

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0195361938

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While most studies of labor in the coal industry focus on the struggle to organize unions, this work offers a more diverse and quantitative examination of the labor market. It regards the economic lives of the bituminous coal miners in the early twentieth century. Fishback's analytic framework encompasses competition among employers for labor, the legal environment, institutional development in response to transactions costs as well as the impact of labor unions on the coal industry. Utilizing economic theory and statistics, Fishback reveals the models hidden in the descriptions of events, and then tests their internal consistency as well as the hypotheses they generate.