The coal industry and its industrial relations. Some union/nonunion comparisons

Book · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:7048807

Hannah, R; Mangum, G

This book addresses the following questions: how do product markets and labor markets interact in a labor intensive industry; how can a union whose members once mined 90 percent of the coal and now mines 40 percent, still dominate the industrial relations system of the industry, bargaining for member, nonmember, miners and management; how did a union which came into being to take wages out of competition eventually come to shield prices from competition as well and what is causing the erosion of that power; how can the environmental threats of an industry be compromised with its essential resource role; with all of its traditional markets dead or dying, how coal has survived through electric power generation; and what is the future of the industry.

• OSTI ID: 7048807
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
012000 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Mining
015000* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Economic
Industrial
& Business Aspects
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290200 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Economics & Sociology
294001 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Coal
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
COAL INDUSTRY
COAL MINERS
COMPETITION
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FORECASTING
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
INDUSTRY
LABOR RELATIONS
MANAGEMENT
MARKET
MATERIALS
MINERS
PERSONNEL
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
POWER GENERATION
PRICES
WAGES