British Coalmining Industry. Retrospect and prospect
Details:
- Author(s) Griffin, Alan R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1977
- Pages 224pp; illus
- Publisher Moorland Publishing
- Place Published Buxton
Topics:
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Seeks to provide a scholarly 'reasonably comprehensive and concise general history covering Great Britain' from medieval times to 1970s. Chapters include: 1] 'Organisation of the industry' - 'The right to work coal' / 'The emergence of the entrepreneur' / 'The management function'; 2] 'Capital' - 'Sources of capital' / 'Profits' / 'Vertical integration'; 3] 'Labour' - 'Status of the labourer' / 'Numbers employed' / 'Wages and hours of work' / 'Truck and deductions from wages' / 'Miners' trade unions'; 4] 'Technology' - 'At the coalface' / 'Limiting factors' / 'Coalmining's industrial revolution' / Mechanisation' / 'Mining disasters and safety'; 5] 'The coal trade' - 'Transport' / 'Markets' / 'Monopoly and competition'; 6] 'Mining communities' - 'The mining village' / 'Rural, urban and new village environments' / The Kent coalfield'; 7] 'The coal industry in decline, 1920-70' - 'Industry under nationalisation' / 'industrial relations'