Download or read book Soft Coal, Hard Choices written by Price Van Meter Fishback and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions.