Download or read book Markets and Marketing Methods of the West Virginia Coal Industry written by James Howard Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of the West Virginia Coal Industry and Ways to Help it written by West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Committee on Government and Finance. Subcommittee on Coal Mining and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Market Delineation in the Coal Industry written by Thomas C. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Production and Marketing of Coal in Virginia and the Nation written by Virginia. Division of Industrial Development and Planning and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Coal Industry of the State of West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Economic Analysis of Mine Timber Marketing in West Virginia written by Henry Hickler Webster and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stabilization of Bituminous Coal Mining Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Appalachian Coal Mining and Market Power written by Jonathan Brown and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study explores the poor working conditions of early-20th-century coal miners in Appalachia--more specifically in southern West Virginia--and how a substantial imbalance in market power allowed these conditions to develop. Market power, the ability to manipulate the terms of a transaction to extract benefit at the expense of other participating parties, can be concentrated on the side of the buyer or the seller. If it is the seller that has dominant market power, they can drive up the price of the commodity with little fear that the consumer will abandon the transaction in favor of a competitor. If it is the buyer who holds more market power, they can drive down the price knowing that the seller has no alternative sale options. In the case of the early-20th-century U.S. coal industry, owners had unfettered dominance in the sale of coal, but also in the purchasing of labor. This led to lucrative gains for the coal operators, but at the expense of other parties involved, introducing a system that was detrimental to the economy as a whole. In the labor market in particular, the lack of bargaining power for the workers led to horrific conditions in which laborers themselves worked and their families were trapped. The desperation that festered under these conditions was fueled by cruelty ranging from petty wage deductions to cold-blooded murder. Eventually, thousands of miners would take up arms and march on their employers in the largest uprising on U.S. soil outside the Civil War, culminating in a battle known as, despite a law passed by the West Virginia state government in 1931 in an effort that removed it from school history books for decades, the Battle for Blair Mountain. In the following case study, monopoly and monopsony are defined and their basic behavior is described. In some cases, inequitable balance of power can be beneficial to the economy as a whole, or at least largely ignored. However, students will find here one of many examples throughout history that showcases the range of atrocities that might be inflicted when market power is not kept in check. Students will be asked to consider the detrimental aspects of placing profit-seeking above human welfare, to contemplate the definition of a successful company beyond its costs and revenues, and to examine a government's role in fostering markets that benefit both buyers and sellers.

Download or read book Proceedings of the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute written by West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coal written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal will continue to provide a major portion of energy requirements in the United States for at least the next several decades. It is imperative that accurate information describing the amount, location, and quality of the coal resources and reserves be available to fulfill energy needs. It is also important that the United States extract its coal resources efficiently, safely, and in an environmentally responsible manner. A renewed focus on federal support for coal-related research, coordinated across agencies and with the active participation of the states and industrial sector, is a critical element for each of these requirements. Coal focuses on the research and development needs and priorities in the areas of coal resource and reserve assessments, coal mining and processing, transportation of coal and coal products, and coal utilization.

Download or read book Business and Economic Studies written by West Virginia University. Bureau of Business Research and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life in a West Virginia Coal Field written by American Constitutional Association (Charleston, W. Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Concentration by Competing Raw Fuel Industries in the Energy Market and Its Impact on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Special Small Business Problems and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Coal Industry written by Adam Thomas Shurick and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1924 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stabilization of Bituminous Coal Mining Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West Virginia Statistical Handbook written by James Howard Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Press Release written by United States. Bituminous Coal Division and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: