- 232 pages
- English
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About this book
Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry. It provides not only a compact summary for those within the industry but also provides understanding of its problems and achievements for those outside it. The fluctuating world fuel situation threw the fortunes of the coal industry up and down and this book examines these changing fortunes within the context of the new challenges from North Sea oil and other newer sources of fuel.
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Yes, you can access Coal on the Switchback by Israel Berkovitch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Business General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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INDEX
Aberfan 140
Absenteeism (table) 79, 127 et seq.
Accidents 36, 99, 101, 129, (table) 192, 199
Ancillary enterprises 87, 160, 161, 203 et seq.
Anderton Shearer 105
Association for Coal in Europe 162 et seq.
Automatic controls 141, 186, 192 et seq., 207
Baths 80, 84, 108, 130
Benn, Anthony 228
Boardman, Tom 16, 172
Bowman, James (later Sir) 98, 99, 104, 115, 118
British Association of Colliery Management Research 132, 164
British Coal Utilisation/Association 110, 122
British Steel Corporation 165, 195
Bronowski, Dr J. 108
Brown, Sir Stanley 146
Bryan, Sir Andrew 190 et seq.
Buckmaster Committee 48
Building Research Establishment 226
Buzzard, Dr R. B. 127, 128
By-products of carbonisation 87
Capital 72, 97, 98, 138, 140, 172, 184 et seq.
Carbonisation 87, 108, 110, 123
Catherwood, Sir Frederick 23
CEGB 146, 155 et seq., 164, 165, 195, 231
Central Engineering Establishment 105
Chemicals 123, 160, 204, 231
Children in pits 34 et seq.
Classification of coal 86
Closure of pits 165 et seq.
Club of Rome 225
‘Coal and Energy Policy in Europe’ 164
Coal Commission 50, 56, 68
Coalfields 75 et seq. (map, with Areas) 232
Coal Industry Acts 16, 56, 160, 172
Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 70 et seq.
‘Coalplex’ 204, 231
Coal preparation 61, 83, 8...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- The fuel picture
- From scrabbling in the ground to exporting great treasure
- Towards nationalisation
- What the nation took over
- The first Board
- Expanding horizons
- The great turnabout
- Fight for survival
- Coal yields further ground
- The sheikhs take a hand
- Coal industry 1975/76
- Fuel policies 1975/76
- The future – must coal stay on a switchback?
- index