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Page 224
... rise between 1947 and 1948. The rise was 62.2 per cent in the first half and 35.5 per cent in the second half of the period.3 These figures give some indication of representative movements in the complex of wages in the coal industry ...
... rise between 1947 and 1948. The rise was 62.2 per cent in the first half and 35.5 per cent in the second half of the period.3 These figures give some indication of representative movements in the complex of wages in the coal industry ...
Page 282
... rise in costs , which set in during 1969 , proved impossible to check and continued until it was greatly increased by the national strike early in 1972 and its settlement . For three years the rise in costs came mainly from sources over ...
... rise in costs , which set in during 1969 , proved impossible to check and continued until it was greatly increased by the national strike early in 1972 and its settlement . For three years the rise in costs came mainly from sources over ...
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... rise began , above the rate of inflation , and this real rise ( with a check between 1957 and early 1960 in response to the contrac- tion of sales ) went on for the rest of the decade . From 1961 to 1969 the trend of prices in real ...
... rise began , above the rate of inflation , and this real rise ( with a check between 1957 and early 1960 in response to the contrac- tion of sales ) went on for the rest of the decade . From 1961 to 1969 the trend of prices in real ...
Contents
THE INHERITANCE | 3 |
THE MARKET FOR COAL | 37 |
TECHNOLOGY AND EXPLORATION | 61 |
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achieved activities agreement areas assets average British coal capacity capital CEGB cent chairman changes CINA closures coal industry Coal Industry Act coal prices Coal Products coalfields coalmining collieries Colliery Guardian Committee continued costs deep mining demand detailed divisional divisions early East Midlands economic effect energy figures Fleck Report Fuel and Power Ibid important improvement incomes policy increase interest investment Joe Gormley labour less loss mainly ment Midlands million tonnes miners mineworkers Minister Ministry of Fuel national board National Coal Board nationalized industries NCB Ann NCB's needed negotiations Nottinghamshire opencast mining operating output period Plan for Coal pneumoconiosis power stations practice problems profit programme projects reduced responsibility revenue rise Robens scheme seventies sixties South Wales South Yorkshire statutory strike structure supply tion tons underground unions wages workers Yorkshire