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History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 2, 1700-1830. The industrial revolution

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  • Author(s) Flinn, Michael W, with D Stoker
  • Publication type Monograph
  • Year published 1983
  • Pages 491pp; illus
  • Publisher Clarendon Press
  • Place Published Oxford

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

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Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 1984. Part of a five volume scholarly history of the British coal industry sponsored by the National Coal Board from 1975. Deals especially with technology and transport and with miners and labour issues. Has sections: 1] 'Development of coal mining, 1700-1830'; 2] 'Ownership and management of collieries'; 3] 'Technology 1'; 4] 'Technology 2'; 5] 'Transport of coal'; 6] 'Capital'; 7] 'Markets'; 8] 'Organisation of coal marketing'; 9] 'Economics of mining'; 10] 'Organisation of mining labour'; 11] 'Wages and industrial relations'; 12] 'The mining community'; 13] 'The coal industry and the economy, 1700-1830'