Robert W. Brure

FOREWORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I The Challenge of Power

CHAPTER II The Coming of Coal

CHAPTER III The Drama of Civilization

CHAPTER IV Coal in America

CHAPTER V The Awakening of the Miners

CHAPTER VI The Struggle for Organization

CHAPTER VII The Rise of Democracy

CHAPTER VIII Rivals of Coal

CHAPTER IX The Technical Revolution

CHAPTER X The Strait Gate

WHAT TO READ A Select List American Economic Review . New

INDEX

Transcriber's Note

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THE COMING OF COAL

BY

ROBERT W. BRUÈRE

OF THE BUREAU OF
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH



Prepared for
The Educational Committee of the
Commission on the Church and Social Service
of the
Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ
in America



ASSOCIATION PRESS
New York: 347 Madison Avenue
1922

Copyright, 1922, by
Robert W. BruÈre

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA