Economic and Business History of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry, 1840-1914
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- Author(s) Walters, Rhodri H
- Publication type Dissertation, DPhil
- Year published 1975
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- Publisher University of Oxford
- Place Published Oxford
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- City Oxford
- County Oxfordshire
- Country England
- Postcode OX1 3BG
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See reprint of the writer's doctoral thesis, 'Economic and Business History of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry, 1840-1914', Arno, 1977. Seeks to provide a definitive history of the industry paying 'particular attention to the growth of the industry, the social origins of the entrepreneur, the modes of capital formation, the nature of management the labour force, the economics of colliery working and the organisation and nature of the coal trade'. Chapters include: 'The growth of the South Wales steam coal industry'; 'The coalowners'; 'Capital formation'; 'Control and management'; 'Labour'; 'The economics of colliery working'; 'The coal trade'