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The British coal industry is the sixth largest in the world. It is the leading producer of Western Europe. Employing over 210,000, it has an annual turnover of more than £4 billion and in addition generates substantial secondary economic benefits through its demands for civil engineering works, mining equipment and supplies, and transport services. The industry, however, presents its management and its owner — the British government — with many complex and persistent problems that have both economic and related sociopolitical dimensions. It is the purpose of this essay to introduce the reader to some of them.
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Manners, G. (1983). Coal in Britain. In: Tempest, P. (eds) Energy Economics in Britain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7355-1_2
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