minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: August 26, 2011, 11:23:13 AM » |
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The British coal industry might have been relatively efficient by European standards (I don't know about that)... but that's not exactly helping much, is it? Seeing as that was a fairly low standard compared to places where you could pay workers sh!t and/or mines were newer and needed less manpower... outside of Europe.
Of course, the union demanded that mines not be closed for any reasons except for safety reasons or when coal ran out... which wasn't happening anytime soon, of course. Ie, not for being insufficiently profitable. And that's not exactly an economically viable proposition, is it?
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