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Author: Price Van Meter Fishback Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195067258 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
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Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions.
Author: Price Van Meter Fishback Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195067258 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions.
Author: Price V. Fishback Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195361938 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
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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.
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Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions
Author: Erin Ann Thomas Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 1457184435 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 276
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In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah—where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining disasters in American history—and the history of coal development in Utah form the second part. Then Thomas investigates coal mining and communities in West Virginia, near her East Coast home, looking at the Sago Mine collapse and more widespread impacts of mining, including population displacement, mountain top removal, coal dust dispersal, and stream pollution, flooding, and decimation. The book's final part moves from Washington D.C.—and an examination of coal, CO2, and national energy policy—back to Utah, for a tour of a coal mine, and a consideration of the Crandall Canyon mine cave-in, back to Wales and the closing of the oldest operating deep mine in the world and then to a look at energy alternatives, especially wind power, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Author: Bruce E. Kaufman Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801448300 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 284
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Early human resource management : context and history -- HRM at the beginning : the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad -- Contrasting HRM strategies : Pullman and Baldwin -- HRM and alternative systems of workforce governance -- HRM in the industrial heartland I : the United States Steel Corporation -- HRM in the industrial heartland II : the Ford Motor Company -- Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. -- The human resource model in a welfare capitalism firm : the Top-Grade Oil Company -- A high-road employer in a low-road industry : the Great Eastern Coal Company -- The middle ground of HRM in the 1920s : the United Steel and Coal Company -- Paternalism combined with decentralized and informal HRM : Mega-Watt Light and Power -- The "hired hand" model in a large manufacturing firm : New Era Radio -- HRM in the industrial heartland III : High-Beam Steel -- The case studies : insights and lessons learned.
Author: Edward K. Muller Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 082298699X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 473
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Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region’s challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region’s free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region’s mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region’s economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.
Author: Thomas Mackaman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476624682 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 219
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Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and the growing influence of radicalism over immigrant populations. From the bottom rungs of the industrial hierarchy, immigrants pushed forward the greatest wave of strikes in U.S. labor history--lasting from 1916 until 1922--while nurturing new forms of labor radicalism. In response, government and industry, supported by deputized nationalist organizations, launched a campaign of "100 percent Americanism." Together they developed new labor and immigration policies that led to the 1924 National Origins Act, which brought to an end mass European immigration. American industrial society would be forever changed.
Author: Francis Goodall Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136138285 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 688
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The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.
Author: Richard B. McKenzie Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195119010 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 348
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This text explains how firms can improve the performance of the people on whom they depend - workers, customers, suppliers, stockholders - by managing the incentives system better. The author argues that incentives are not just a matter of money, but a range of factors which provide a set of rewards that encourage people to work towards a common goal of organizational success.
Author: Price Van Meter Fishback
Author: Price Van Meter Fishback
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Author: Erin Ann Thomas
Author: Bruce E. Kaufman
Author: Edward K. Muller
Author: Thomas Mackaman
Author: Francis Goodall
Author: Richard B. McKenzie