People have worked as coal miners for centuries, but they became increasingly important during the Industrial revolution when coal was burnt on a large...

The history of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies...

The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine...

By 2010, coal produced over a fourth of the world's energy. Since 1890, coal mining has also been a political and social issue. Coal miners' labour and...

The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures....

armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers (called the Logan Defenders) who were backed by coal mine operators during the miners' attempt...

century, coal miners attempted to overthrow this system and engaged in a series of strikes, including the Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912, and...

The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in the 1897 strike by the soft-coal (bituminous coal) miners in the Midwest, winning...

lung tissue's reaction to its presence. It is common in coal miners and others who work with coal. It is similar to both silicosis from inhaling silica...

during the process of mining minerals or metals. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially from underground coal mining, although...

history of coal mining in the United States starts with the first commercial use in 1701, within the Manakin-Sabot area of Richmond, Virginia. Coal was...

during 1891 when coal mine owners in the Coal Creek watershed began to remove and replace their company-employed, private coal miners then on the payroll...

British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History (Holmes & Meier, 1980) online Buxton, N.K. The economic development of the British coal industry:...

the Nottinghamshire miners to return to work, against the policy of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain divided the coal miners as a national bargaining...

supply of anthracite found there Bituminous coal – Collective term for higher-quality coal, a softer coal History of coal miners History of coal mining...

The Foreign Miners' Tax Act of 1850 (official name An Act for the better regulation of the Mines and the government of foreign Miners, nickname the miserable...

"Coal Miner's Daughter" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. Considered Lynn's signature song, it was originally...

part of being a coal miner. In point of fact, the operators built towns because they had no alternative. The mining of coal requires miners; miners require...

colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Approximately 21 people, including miners' wives...

between the NUM and the National Coal Board of the United Kingdom had broken down. In 1960, according to one study, "miners, of whom there were still half a...

attempt by the Miners Federation of Great Britain, the main trade union representing coal miners, to secure a minimum wage for miners in their district...

of the Eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a series of often...

The 1922 UMW Miner strike or The Big Coal Strike was a nationwide general strike of miners in the US and Canada after the United Mine Worker's (UMW) trade...

The Coal Miners' Museum is a museum in Van Lear, Kentucky, dedicated to the area's coal mining history. The museum is administered by the Van Lear Historical...

County coal strike of 1910–1911, or the Westmoreland coal miners' strike, was a strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America...

Coal Miner's Daughter is the sixteenth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on January 4, 1971,...

Ashton, T. S. & Sykes, J. The coal industry of the eighteenth century. 1929. Baylies, Carolyn. The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881–1918 Routledge (1993)...

19, 1920 between local coal miners and their allies and the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency. The dead included two brothers of the detective agency's founder...

Provision of superannuation rights; transfer of property; functions of the Coal Commission; abolition of coal advisory committee;  Miners' Welfare Commission;...

and there were only 60,000 active coal miners. The UMW was left with 35,000 members, of whom 20,000 were coal miners, chiefly in underground mines in Kentucky...