List of books about coal mining

Books and some articles relating to coal mining, especially historical.

Current conditions

* Burns, Daniel. ''The modern practice of coal mining'' (1907)
* Chirons, Nicholas P. ''Coal Age Handbook of Coal Surface Mining'' (1978)
* Hamilton, Michael S. ''Mining Environmental Policy: Comparing Indonesia and the USA'' (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005). ().
* Hayes, Geoffrey. ''Coal Mining'' (2004), 32 pp
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* Charles V. Nielsen and George F. Richardson. ''1982 Keystone Coal Industry Manual'' (1982)
* Saleem H. Ali. "Minding our Minerals, 2006."
* Speight, James G
"An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics,"
John Wiley & Sons 2011.
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* World Coal Institute. ''The Coal Resource'' (2005) covers all aspects of the coal industry in 48 pp.
* Woytinsky, W. S., and E. S. Woytinsky. ''World Population and Production Trends and Outlooks'' (1953) pp 840–881; with many tables and maps on the worldwide coal industry in 1950

Fiction and Poetry

* Brierley, Walter. ''Means Test Man'' (1935).
* Chaplin, Sid.''The Thin Seam'' (1949).
* Cookson, Catherine.''Tilly Trotter'' (1980), and other books by this author.
* Cronin, A. J. ''The Stars Look Down'' (1935), ''The Citadel'' (1937).
* Davies, Idris. ''Gwalia Deserta'' (1938) and ''The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926'' (1943).
* Giardina, Denise. ''Storming Heaven'' (1988), '' The Unquiet Earth'' (1992).
* Grisham, John. ''Gray Mountain'' (2014)
* Harrison, Tony. " v." (1985).
* Hensher, Philip.''The Northern Clemency'' (2008).
* Heslop, Harold. ''Last Cage Down'' (1935).
* Jones, Jack. ''Black Parade'' (1935).
* Jones, Lewis. ''Cwmardy'' (1937) and ''We Live'' (1939).
* Kirk, Sam. ''The Coal Boat'' (2018).
* Lawrence, D. H. ''Sons and Lovers'' (1913).
* Lillo, Baldomero. '' Sub terra'' (1904).
* Llewellyn, Richard. ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1939).
* Rosenberg, Madelyn. ''Canary in the Coal Mine'' (2013).
* Peace, David. ''GB84'' (2004).
* Sinclair, Upton. '' King Coal'' (1917), The Coal War (1976).
* Verne, Jules. ''The Child of the Cavern'' (1877).
* Welsh, James C. ''Songs of A Miner'' (1917), ''The Underworld'' (1920), and ''The Morlocks'' (1924).
* Wiseman, Ellen Marie. "The Coal River" (2015).
* Zola, Emile. '' Germinal'' (1885).

Coal mining history

* Freese, Barbara, ''Coal: A Human History'' (2004). .
* Jeffrey, E. C. ''Coal and Civilization.'' 1925.

Britain

Bibliographic guides

* Benson, J., Thompson, C.H. & Neville, R.G. ''Bibliography of the British coal industry''. 1981
* British Library, ''Coal mining'' (Social Sciences Collection Guides: Topical Bibliographies)
* Galloway, R.L. ''Annals of coal mining and the coal trade''. - v1 of the 1971 reprint has a bibliography in the introduction.
* Linsley, S.M
''The Coal Industry - A Select Bibliography''
Durham Mining Museum
* Mining History Networ

Despite the title there is earlier material included.
* North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Nicholas Wood Memorial Library
''History of mining in the UK: some useful books''
2018

Histories and manuals

* Ashton, T. S. & Sykes, J. ''The coal industry of the eighteenth century''. 1929.
* Baylies, Carolyn. ''The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881–1918'' Routledge (1993).
* Benson, John. "Coalmining" in Chris Wrigley, ed. A History of British industrial relations, 1875–1914 (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp 187–208.
* Benson, John. ''British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History'' Holmes & Meier, (1980).
* Buxton, N.K. ''The economic development of the British coal industry: from Industrial Revolution to the present day''. 1979.
* Coombes, B. L. ''These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales'' (1939).
* Dron, Robert W. ''The economics of coal mining'' (1928).
* Fine, B. ''The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day'' (1990).
* Galloway, R.L. ''Annals of coal mining and the coal trade''. First series o 18351898; Second series. 835–801904. Reprinted 1971
* Galloway, Robert L. ''A History Of Coal Mining In Great Britain'' (1882
Online
at Open Library
* Griffin, A. R. ''The British coalmining industry: retrospect and prospect.'' 1977.
* Hanley, James. ''Grey Children: A Study in Humbug and Misery.'' 1937.
* Hatcher, John, et al. ''The History of the British Coal Industry'' (5 vol, Oxford U.P., 1984–87); 3000 pages of scholarly history
** John Hatcher: '' The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 1: Before 1700: Towards the Age of Coal'' (1993).
** Michael W. Flinn, and David Stoker. ''History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 2. 1700–1830: The Industrial Revolution'' (1984).
** Roy Church, Alan Hall and John Kanefsky. ''History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 3: Victorian Pre-Eminence''
** Barry Supple. ''The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 4: 1913–1946: The Political Economy of Decline'' (1988) excerpt and .
** William Ashworth and Mark Pegg. ''History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 5: 1946–1982: The Nationalized Industry'' (1986)
* Heinemann, Margot. ''Britain's coal: A study of the mining crisis'' (1944).
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* Hughes. Herbert W, ''A Text-Book of Mining: For the use of colliery managers and others'' (London, many editions 1892–1917), the standard British textbook for its era.
* Hull, Edward. ''Our coal resources at the close of the nineteenth century'' (1897
Online
at Open Library. Stress on geology.
* Jaffe, James Alan. ''The Struggle for Market Power: Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800–1840'' (2003).
* Jevons, H.S. ''The British coal trade''. 1920, reprinted 1969
* Jevons, W. Stanley. ''The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines'' (1865).
* Kirby, M.W. ''The British coalmining industry, 1870–1946: a political and economic history''. 1977.
* Lucas, Arthur F. "A British Experiment in the Control of Competition: The Coal Mines Act of 1930." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' (1934): 418–441.
in JSTOR
** Prest, Wilfred. "The British Coal Mines Act of 1930, Another Interpretation." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' (1936): 313–332
in JSTOR
* Lewis, B. ''Coal mining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries''. (Longman, 1971).
* McIvor, Arthur and Ronald Johnston. ''Miners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining'' 2007)
* Nef, J. U. ''Rise of the British coal industry''. 2v 1932, a comprehensive scholarly survey
* Orwell, George. "Down the Mine" (''The Road to Wigan Pier'' chapter 2, 1937
full text
* Rowe, J.W.F. ''Wages In the coal industry'' (1923).
* Tonge, James. ''The principles and practice of coal mining'' (1906)
* Waller, Robert. '' The Dukeries Transformed: A history of the development of the Dukeries coal field after 1920'' (Oxford U.P., 1983) on the Dukeries
* Williams, Chris. ''Capitalism, community and conflict: The south Wales coalfield, 1898–1947'' (U of Wales Press, 1998).

United States

* '' Burning the Future: Coal in America'' (film)
* ''Mountain Top Removal'' (film)
* Loeb, Penny. '' Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal'' (University of Kentucky Press, 2007).

Industry

Adams, Sean Patrick, . "The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century."
EH.Net Encyclopedia, August 15, 2001 scholarly overview
* Adams, Sean Patrick. "Promotion, Competition, Captivity: The Political Economy of Coal," ''Journal of Policy History'' (2006) 18#1 pp 74–9
online
* Adams, Sean Patrick. ''Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
* Binder, Frederick Moore. ''Coal Age Empire: Pennsylvania Coal and Its Utilization to 1860''. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1974.
* Chandler, Alfred. "Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the 'Industrial Revolution' in the United States", ''Business History Review'' 46 (1972): 141–181
in JSTOR
* Davies, Edward J., II. ''The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1800–1930'' (1985).
* DiCiccio, Carmen. ''Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania''. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1996
* Conley, Phil. ''History of West Virginia Coal Industry'' (Charleston: Education Foundation, 1960)
* Eavenson, Howard. ''The First Century and a Quarter of the American Coal Industry'' 1942.
* Verla R. Flores and A. Dudley Gardner. ''Forgotten Frontier: A History of Wyoming Coal Mining'' (1989)
* Goodell, Jeff. '' Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future'' (2006)
* Hudson Coal Company. ''The Story of Anthracite'' (New York, 1932), 425pp; Useful overview of the industry in the 20th century; fair-minded with an operators perspective
* Lauver, Fred J. "A Walk Through the Rise and Fall of Anthracite Might", ''Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine'' 27#1 (2001
online edition
* Long, Priscilla. '' Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry''. Paragon, 1989.
* Nelson, Robert H.br>''The Making of Federal Coal Policy'' (1983)
* Netschert, Bruce C. and Sam H. Schurr, ''Energy in the American Economy, 1850–1975: An Economic Study of Its History and Prospects.'' (1960)
* Parker, Glen Lawhon. ''The Coal Industry: A Study in Social Control'' (Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1940)
* Powell, H. Benjamin. ''Philadelphia's First Fuel Crisis. Jacob Cist and the Developing Market for Pennsylvania Anthracite''. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978.
* Rottenberg, Dan. ''In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World'' (2003), owners' perspective
* Shnayerson, Michael. ''Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love'' (2008)
* Schurr, Sam H., and Bruce C. Netschert. ''Energy in the American Economy, 1850–1975: An Economic Study of Its History and Prospects.'' Johns Hopkins Press, 1960.
* Veenstra, Theodore A., and Wilbert G. Fritz. "Major Economic Tendencies in the Bituminous Coal Industry," ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 51#1 (1936) pp. 106–13
in JSTOR
* Vietor, Richard H. K. and Martin V. Melosi; ''Environmental Politics and the Coal Coalition'' Texas A&M University Press, 1980
* Warren, Kenneth. ''Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America''. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Primary sources

* United States Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1902–1903, ''Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October, 1902 By United States Anthracite Coal Strike'' (1903
online edition
* ''Report of the United states coal commission....'' (5 vol in 3; 1925) Official US government investigation of the 1922 anthracite strike
online vol 1–2
** Tryon, Frederick Gale, and Joseph Henry Willits, eds. ''What the Coal Commission Found: An Authoritative Summary by the Staff'' (1925).
** General policies committee of anthracite operators. ''The anthracite coal strike of 1922: A statement of its causes and underlying purposes'' (1923); Official statement by the operators
online

Coal miners and unions

* Arnold, Andrew B. ''Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country'' (2014)
* Aurand, Harold W. ''Coalcracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835–1935'' (2003).
* Baratz, Morton S. ''The Union and the Coal Industry'' (Yale University Press, 1955)
* Blatz, Perry. ''Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875–1925''. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
* Coal Mines Administration, U.S, Department Of The Interior. ''A Medical Survey of the Bituminous-Coal Industry.'' U.S. Government Printing Office. 1947.
* Corbin, David Alan ''Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880–1922'' (1981)
* Dix, Keith. ''What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining'' (1988), changes in the coal industry prior to 1940
* Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine, ''John L. Lewis: A Biography'' (1977), leader of Mine Workers union, 1920–1960
* Eller, Ronald D. ''Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930'' 1982.
* Price V. Fishback. ''Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890–1930'' (1992)
* Grossman, Jonathan

* Harvey, Katherine. ''The Best Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1835–1910''. Cornell University Press, 1993.
* Hinrichs; A. F. ''The United Mine Workers of America, and the Non-Union Coal Fields'' Columbia University, 1923.
* Lantz; Herman R. ''People of Coal Town'' Columbia University Press, 1958; on southern Illinois.
* Laslett, John H.M. ed. ''The United Mine Workers: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?'' Penn State University Press, 1996.
* Lewis, Ronald L. ''Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict''. University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
* Lunt, Richard D. ''Law and Order vs. the Miners: West Virginia, 1907–1933'' Archon Books, 1979, On labor conflicts of the early 20th century.
* Lynch, Edward A. and David J. McDonald. ''Coal and Unionism: A History of the American Coal Miners' Unions'' (1939)
* McIntosh, Robert. ''Boys in the pits: Child labour in coal mines'' (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2000), Canadian mines
* Phelan, Craig. ''Divided Loyalties: The Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell'' (1994)
* Rössel, Jörg. "Industrial Structure, Union Strategy and Strike Activity in Bituminous Coal Mining, 1881–1894", ''Social Science History'' (2002) 16#1 pp 1–32.
* Seltzer, Curtis. ''Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry'' University Press of Kentucky, 1985, conflict in the coal industry to the 1980s.
* Smith, Richard C. ''Human Crisis in the Kingdom of Coal'' Friendship Press, 1952, covers the plight of the coal worker in European and American coal centers.
* Trotter Jr., Joe William. ''Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32'' (1990)
* U.S. Immigration Commission, ''Report on Immigrants in Industries, Part I: Bituminous Coal Mining'', 2 vols. Senate Document no. 633, 61st Cong., 2nd sess. (1911)
* Wallace, Anthony F.C. ''St. Clair. A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry''. Knopf, 1981.
* Ward, Robert D. and William W. Rogers, ''Labor Revolt in Alabama: The Great Strike of 1894'' University of Alabama Press, 1965 online the coal strike

China

* Dorian, James P. ''Minerals, Energy, and Economic Development in China'' Clarendon Press, 1994
* Huaichuan Rui; ''Globalisation, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry'' Routledge, 2004
* Kuenzer, Claudia. ''Coal Mining in China'' (In: Schumacher-Voelker, E., and Mueller, B., (Eds.), 2007: BusinessFocus China, Energy: A Comprehensive Overview of the Chinese Energy Sector. gic Deutschland Verlag, 281 pp., pp. 62–68)
* Thomson; Elspeth. ''The Chinese Coal Industry: An Economic History'' Routledge 2003.
* Wu, Shellen Xiao. ''Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920'' (Stanford University Press, 2015) 266 pp.
online review

Europe

* Parnell, Martin F. ''The German Tradition of Organized Capitalism: Self-Government in the Coal Industry'' Oxford University Press Inc., 1998
* Pounds, Norman J. G., and William N. Parker; ''Coal and Steel in Western Europe; the Influence of Resources and Techniques on Production'' Indiana University Press, 1957
* Pounds, Norman J. G. ''An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800–1914'' (1993)
* Pounds, Norman J. G. ''The Ruhr: A Study in Historical and Economic Geography'' (1952)

Other

* Calderón, Roberto R. ''Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas & Coahuila, 1880–1930'' (2000) 294pp.
* Frank, David. ''J. B. McLachlan: A Biography: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners,'' (1999), in Canada
* Marsden, Susan, ''Coals to Newcastle: a History of Coal Loading at the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales 1797–1997'' (2002) ; Australia
* Nimura Kazuo, Andrew Gordon, and Terry Boardman; ''The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan'' Duke University Press, 1997
* A.K. Srivastava. ''Coal Mining Industry in India'' (1998) ()

See also

* Coal mining

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