Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930

ISBN-13: 9780195067255 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 296 str.

Price V. Fishback

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'a stimulating and lucid reassessment of a major area of US labour history ... this is an excellent example of historical economics ... There are very few British labour historians who would not benefit from reading this book. It is an impressive application of labour economics and statistics to the history of aspects of industrial relastions.' Chris Wrigley, Nottingham University, Business History