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Coal: For Miners or Consumers?
Author(s) -
Marshall Eileen,
Robinson Colin
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb00472.x
Subject(s) - coal , politics , coal mining , production (economics) , business , economics , market economy , economic policy , political science , engineering , waste management , law , microeconomics
Nationalisation promised to run the coal industry efficiently in the public interest. But nationalisation is politicisation. The consumer is replaced by party politics. Despite surplus stocks, the National Union of Mineworkers under Arthur Scargill resists concentration on the most efficient pits. The industry has become an engine not for coal production but for Job preservation.