• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Soft coal, hard choices : the economic welfare of bituminous coal miners, 1890-1930
  • Contributor: Fishback, Price [Author]
  • imprint: New York ;; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 279 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195067255.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199855025
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  • Keywords: Coal miners History United States ; Bituminous coal industry History United States
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: 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.