Economic Development of the British Coal Industry 1800-1914.
本书全面分析了1800年至一战前英国煤炭工业的资本、劳动力、产出、成本、生产率、市场、技术变革及工资谈判，为理解该行业扩张的经济动因提供了最完整的研究。
This book provides a full account of the economic development of the British coal industry from 1800 to the First World War. It estimates and analyses the growth in the capital employed and the labour force in British collieries; their output, costs, productivity and markets; the changes in technology; and wage bargaining and determination in the industry. Figures are given for the United Kingdom as a whole, and also for all the major coalfields and some of the minor ones. It therefore provides the most complete study available of the economic determinants of the industry and by looking at the underlying economic relationships contributes to our understanding of the factors which motivated and determined the industry's expansion.