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

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.

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 Network Bibliography of British Mining History: Published Since 1987. 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 [to 1835] 1898; Second series. [1835–80] 1904. 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).

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 74–95 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. 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. 106–130 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)