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History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 3, 1830-1913. Victorian pre-eminence

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  • Author(s) Church, Roy
  • Publication type Monograph
  • Year published 1986
  • Pages 831pp; illus
  • Publisher Clarendon Press
  • Place Published Oxford

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  • Name Power & fuel history
  • Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
  • Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
  • Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
  • Name Workers / employee & work, women & men

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Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 1986. Part of a five volume scholarly history of the British coal industry sponsored by the National Coal Board from 1975. Has sections: 1] 'Rise of the coal economy - output and demand'; 2] 'Capital formation and finance'; 3] 'Labour supply and labour market'; 4] 'Technology and working methods'; '5] 'Business organisation and management'; 6] 'Economics of colliery enterprise'; 7] 'Standards and experiences - the miners'; 8] Industrial relations and wage determination'; 9] 'Coal, economy and society, 1830-1913'