Contains 14 papers which discuss industrial labour and its management. Examines the influence of caste and social class in recruitment and the position of women industrial workers.
This study utilizes adult learning, working-class masculinity, and political economy theories to explore the education and learning that supports engagement in the Just Transition movement in Central Appalachia. The central research question is as follows: in communities with ec…
This dissertation consists of three essays that use applied econometric analysis and other analytical methods from various economic fields, including regional and urban economics, natural resource economics, housing economics, and sports economics. In all three essays, I use hou…
The onset of the Great Depression led to severe work shortages for miners in Harlan County, Kentucky. In turn, low wages exacerbated by shorter hours created starvation conditions for their families. In 1931, organizers from the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) travelled to…
Through extensive archival research, oral history and ethnography, this dissertation examines the coal mining photographs of photojournalist Jack Corn, repositioning his work alongside the work of noted social documentarian Milton Rogovin as being important in reshaping the visu…
The eastern basin acid mine drainage treatment plant was launched in February 2017. The short-term treatment (STT) of acid mine drainage (AMD) involves a high-density sludge management system and the purpose of the treatment is to discharge improved (neutralised) quality of wate…
Carbon, Wyoming, occupied between 1868 and 1902, was the first established coal mining town along the Union Pacific Railroad in the state. Within the context of industrial expansion in the western U.S., the community at Carbon was intimately connected to larger 19th-century labo…
The Witbank district became South Africa’s biggest coal supplier during the early decades of the twentieth-century and it is still the largest contributor to the country’s coal output. To date, numerous studies have detailed the development of the district’s mining industry, but…
During the 2016 Presidential election, journalists from all over the country flocked to West Virginia to try to understand the draw to then-candidate Donald Trump. There is a well-documented history of outsiders flooding the state and its surrounding Appalachian states to attemp…
"In the years since the 2nd edition in 2006, many incremental developments in the whole system as well as various subsystems of the existing longwall mining operational technologies as detailed in the 2nd edition have been added to this edition. Longwall Mining, 3rd edition will…