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| The Miners' Choices: Voice or Exit | |
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| The Analytical Framework | |
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| The Implications of Competition | |
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| The Impact of Collective Action and Unions | |
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| Summary of Implications | |
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| The Coal Labor Market, 1890-1930 | |
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| Long-term Trends in the Coal Product Market | |
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| Exercising Voice Through the Union | |
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| Competition Among Employers for Labor | |
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| The Miners' Mobility | |
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| The Miners' Information | |
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| Summary | |
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| Working in a Coal Mine | |
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| Tonnage Men | |
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| Daymen | |
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| Management | |
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| Rewards in the Occupational Hierarchy | |
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| Methods of Wage Payment | |
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| Piece Rates, Time Rates, and Transactions Costs | |
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| Piece Rates and Quality Control | |
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| Piece Rates and Variation in Mine Conditions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dig Sixteen Tons and What Did You Get? Earnings | |
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| Why Become a Miner? High Hourly Earnings | |
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| Annual Earnings | |
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| The Worker's Choice | |
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| Trends in Real Earnings | |
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| Regional Comparisons Within Coal Mining | |
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| Summary | |
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| Death's Taken a Mighty Toll for Coal, Coal, Coal | |
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| The Extent and Nature of Coal Accidents | |
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| Wages and Accident Rates | |
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| Unions and Safety | |
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| Government Regulation of Safety | |
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| Changes in Liability Laws | |
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| Compensation and Accident Prevention | |
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| Summary | |
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| Did Coal Miners "Owe Their Souls to the Company Store"? | |
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| The Limits on Store Monopoly | |
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| Why Did Companies Own Stores? | |
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| Store Prices | |
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| Were Miners Forced to Buy at the Store? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Company Town | |
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| The Nature of Company Housing | |
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| Why Did Companies Own Housing? | |
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| Monopoly Ownership? | |
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| The "Necessity" of Company Ownership | |
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| A Device to Prevent Collective Action | |
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| Model Towns | |
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| Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s | |
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| Sanitation in Company Towns | |
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| Sanitation in Company versus Independent Towns | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Coal Mines as Melting Pots | |
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| The Geographic Location of Blacks and Immigrants | |
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| The Limited Nature of Discrimination in West Virginia | |
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| Wage Rates and Earnings | |
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| Differences in Workplace Safety | |
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| Positioning in the Job Hierarchy | |
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| The Impact of Competition on Segregated Schools | |
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| Housing Segregation | |
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| Segregation Across Mines | |
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| Black Workers in Alabama | |
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| Black Workers and the UMWA | |
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| Summary | |
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| What Did Miners Gain from Strikes? | |
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| Strike Activity in Bituminous Coal Mining | |
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| Differences in Strike Activity Within the Coal Industry | |
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| The Pecuniary Gains and Losses from Strikes | |
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| Violence During Strikes | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Calculating Earnings for Workers in Coal Mining and Manufacturing | |
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| Annual Earnings | |
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| Hourly Earnings | |
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| Sources of Data for Panel of Twenty-three Coal States from 1901 to 1930 | |
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| Accident Rates | |
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| Coal Prices, Technological Variables, Strikes, Union Strength, and Mine Size | |
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| Wage Rates | |
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| Workers' Compensation Legislation | |
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| State Mining Legislation and Enforcement | |
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| Estimating the Relationship Between Wages and Accident Rates | |
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| A Theoretical Model of Accident Prevention by Miners and Employers | |
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| The Representative Miner | |
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| The Operator | |
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| Combining the Results | |
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| Measuring Segregation in Job Hierarchies | |
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| An Empirical Test of the Influence of Coal Companies on Equalizing Black and White Schools in West Virginia | |
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| Piece Rate Regressions for West Virginia Counties | |
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| Index | |