Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry, (Hardcover)

Throughout the coal industry's two-hundred-year history, labor issues have dominated its economics and politics. Curtis Seltzer has written a comprehensive historical analysis of labor relations in the American coal industry -- the first since the 1930s. Market forces have victimized coal suppliers and their workers for most of this century as demand shifted to other fuels. Coal producers responded to poor sales and excess production capacity with policies that led to strikes, inefficiency, and