This paper aims to discover how, with the decline and ending of the deep coal mining industry in many parts of the UK … exploring the way coal mine workers and their communities have been seen within popular and academic accounts, and in particular … this legacy is still subject to such interpretation, and that further, the specificity of the coal industry is commodified …

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to suggest how the Chilean model used to rescue the 33 miners trapped …

the coal mining industry in Canada over the past four decades. It is found that real price movements have had a … substantial impact on productivity growth in the coal mining industry in Canada. The real price of coal increased sharply in the … the average productivity of the overall industry. However, since the 1970s, the real price of coal has fallen steadily …

In Germany, hard coal has been subsidized for almost half a century. Despite the declining significance of hard coal … peaked at € 6.7 bill.While German hard coal subsidies have been shrinking to € 2.7 bill. in 2005, it is very likely that they … proponents of hard coal subsidization in Germany and other EU countries. Most importantly, in addition to the drain imposed on …

This paper provides historical context for the precipitous decline of unionization in coal. It examines the … 1978 coal strike. …

In the early 19th century coal mining in the region of Aachen (Prussian Rhine Province) developed to an industrial …