Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 16 (Political Power and Social Theory)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780762310364
Subjects: Anthropology; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Reference
First sentence: Not long after the House of Morgan consolidated the anthracite coal mining industry into a single "community of interest," a federal commission appointed to study the anthracite coal strike of 1902 pronounced, "there is probably no commodity entering into human consumption which possesses so much the character of a natural monopoly as the anthracite coal of Pennsylvania" (quoted in Aurand, 1971, p. 15).