Coal Mining#Bibliography

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Coal Mining History[edit]

Britain[edit]

Baylies, Carolyn. The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881-1918 Routledge, 1993 online edition
Benson, John. British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History Holmes & Meier, 1980 online
Dintenfass, Michael. Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry between the Wars (1992) online edition
Dron, Robert W. The economics of coal mining (1928)
Galloway, Robert Lindsay. A history of coal mining in Great Britain (1882) online from Google.books
Hatcher, John. The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 1: Before 1700: Towards the Age of Coal (1993)
Heinemann, Margot. Britain's coal: A study of the mining crisis (1944)
Hull, Edward. The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure and Resources: With Descriptions 1905 online edition from Google.books
Jaffe, James Alan. The Struggle for Market Power: Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800-1840 (2003)
Jevons, W. Stanley. The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines (1906). online edition
Nef, John U. The Rise of the British Coal Industry, 2 vols, 1932
Singer, Charles Joseph. A history of technology: vol 4: The Industrial Revolution c 1750-c 1860 (1960) online at ACLS e-books

United States[edit]

Industry[edit]

Adams, Sean Patrick. "The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century." EH.Net Encyclopedia, August 15 2001 scholarly overview online edition
Adams, Sean Patrick. Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Chandler, Alfred. "Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the ‘Industrial Revolution' in the United States," Business History Review 46 (1972): 141-181.
Carmen., DiCiccio, Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1996
Conley, Phil. History of West Virginia Coal Industry (Charleston: Education Foundation, 1960)
Dublin, Thomas and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (2005)
Eavenson, Howard. The First Century and a Quarter of the American Coal Industry 1942.
Flores, Verla R. and A. Dudley Gardner. Forgotten Frontier: A History of Wyoming Coal Mining (1989) online edition
Lauver, Fred J. "A Walk Through the Rise and Fall of Anthracite Might," Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine 27#1 (2001) online edition
Priscilla Long, Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry Paragon, 1989.
Nelson, Robert H. The Making of Federal Coal Policy (1983) online edition
Parker, Glen Lawhon. The Coal Industry: A Study in Social Control (1940)
Powell, H. Benjamin. Philadelphia's First Fuel Crisis. Jacob Cist and the Developing Market for Pennsylvania Anthracite. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978.
Dan Rottenberg, In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World (2003), owners' perspective
United States Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1902-1903, Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902 By United States Anthracite Coal Strike (1903) online edition
Vietor, Richard H. K. and Martin V. Melosi; Environmental Politics and the Coal Coalition Texas A&M University Press, 1980 online
Warren, Kenneth. Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Coal miners and unions[edit]

Aurand, Harold W. Coalcracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835-1935 2003
Baratz, Morton S. The Union and the Coal Industry (Yale University Press, 1955)
Blatz, Perry. Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925. SUNY Press, 1994.
Corbin, David Alan. Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 (1981)
Keith Dix, What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining (1988), changes in the coal industry prior to 1940
Dublin, Thomas and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (2005)
Coal Mines Administration, U.S, Department Of The Interior. A Medical Survey of the Bituminous-Coal Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1947. online
Ronald D, Eller. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 1982.
Price V. Fishback. Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (1992) [online edition
Jonathan Grossman "The Coal Strike of 1902 – Turning Point in U.S. Policy" Monthly Labor Review October 1975. online
Katherine Harvey, The Best Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835-1910. Cornell University Press, 1993.
A. F. Hinrichs; The United Mine Workers of America, and the Non-Union Coal Fields Columbia University, 1923 online
Herman R. Lantz; People of Coal Town Columbia University Press, 1958; on southern Illinois; online
John H.M. Laslett, ed. The United Mine Workers: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? Penn State University Press, 1996.
Ronald L. Lewis. Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict. University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Richard D. Lunt, Law and Order vs. the Miners: West Virginia, 1907-1933 Archon Books, 1979, On labor conflicts of the early twentieth century.
Edward A. Lynch and David J. McDonald. Coal and Unionism: A History of the American Coal Miners' Unions (1939)
Phelan, Craig. Divided Loyalties: The Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell (1994)
Curtis Seltzer, Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry University Press of Kentucky, 1985, conflict in the coal industry to the 1980s.
Joe William Trotter Jr., Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (1990)
U.S. Immigration Commission, Report on Immigrants in Industries, Part I: Bituminous Coal Mining, 2 vols. Senate Document no. 633, 61st Cong., 2nd sess. (1911)
Anthony F.C. Wallace, St. Clair. A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. Knopf, 1981.
Robert D. Ward and William W. Rogers, Labor Revolt in Alabama: The Great Strike of 1894 University of Alabama Press, 1965 online edition coal strike

World[edit]

Dorian, James P. Minerals, Energy, and Economic Development in China Clarendon Press, 1994
Jeffrey, E. C. Coal and Civilization 1925.
Martin F. Parnell; The German Tradition of Organized Capitalism: Self-Government in the Coal Industry Oxford University Press Inc., 1998 online
Norman J. G. Pounds. The Ruhr: A Study in Historical and Economic Geography (1952) online
Huaichuan Rui; Globalisation, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry Routledge, 2004 online
World Coal Institute. The Coal Resource (2005) covers all aspects of the coal industry in 48 pp; online version