The Pennsylvania anthracite coal industry, 1860-1902
Subtitle: economic cycles, business decision-making and regional dynamics
By: R.G. Healey.
Publisher: University of Scranton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Scranton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589661509
Subjects: Anthracite coal industry -- Pennsylvania -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Recurrent and non-recurrent economic fluctuations at the national level; title: Constraints on business decision-making-the impact of geology, topography and mining technology; title: Prior investment in mining and transportation infrastructure; title: Railroad expansion and corporate control; title: Network development strategies and the articulation of the anthracite distribution region in interior markets; title: Railroad expansion and corporate control II: tidewater markets, trunk line connections and comparative economic performance; title: Waxing and waning markets I: sectoral shifts in the use of anthracite; title: Waxing and waning markets II: the changing geography of market power; title: Waxing and waning markets III : regional shifts, price behaviour and the changing size; title: Composition of anthracite production; title: Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels I : precursors and pre-disposing factors to industry-wide combination; title: Corporations, competition and the rise of the cartels II: the 1873 combination and its successors; title: Developing and managing the coal estate; title: Region building I: financing development in the mining economy; title: Region building II: investment in new mining and railroad capacity; title: Regional retrenchment: rationalization and reorganisation in the Schuylkill region 1872-1902; title: Regional dynamics, disequilibrium tendencies and regional economic development; title: Notes for chapters 1-16; title: Preface to bibliography.