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A list of key readings about Coal mining.

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## Contents

* 1 Coal Mining History
* 1.1 Britain
* 1.2 United States
* 1.2.1 Industry
* 1.2.2 Coal miners and unions
* 1.3 World

## 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