The Case of the Bituminous Coal Mine Workers


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Excerpt from The Case of the Bituminous Coal Mine Workers: As Presented by the United Mine Workers of America to the President's Coal Commission, Appointed December, 1919 An appeal for such conference was taken to President Wilson, who delayed his reply until af ter the armistice and then concurred with Dr. Gar field in refusing the request. In none of these negotiations was the subject of the justice of wage increases considered. The only point considered was the request for a conference, to go into the justice of such demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







The Labor Dispute in the Bituminous Coal Industry


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Soft Coal, Hard Choices


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While most studies of labor in the coal industry focus on the struggle to organize unions, this work offers a more diverse and quantitative examination of the labor market. It regards the economic lives of the bituminous coal miners in the early twentieth century. Fishback's analytic framework encompasses competition among employers for labor, the legal environment, institutional development in response to transactions costs as well as the impact of labor unions on the coal industry. Utilizing economic theory and statistics, Fishback reveals the models hidden in the descriptions of events, and then tests their internal consistency as well as the hypotheses they generate.




The United Mine Workers of America, and the Non-union Coal Fields


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"It is the purpose of this book to examine the case for and against the extension of the United Mine Workers of America to non-union coal fields." -- Page 9.