scholarly journals Potential effects of surface coal mining on the hydrology of the West Otter area, Ashland and Birney-Broadus coal fields, southeastern Montana

1984 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
The West ◽  
Surface Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Fields

Segregation in Job Hierarchies: West Virginia Coal Mining, 1906–1932

1984 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 755-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Price Fishback
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Job Segregation ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Coal Fields

When blacks began to leave the South, one of their first stops was the West Virginia coal fields. There they met with reasonable success. Until the Depression, high-paying machine jobs were open to them and job segregation had almost no impact on their wages, but management positions were off-limits with a few exceptions for all-black workforces. The findings suggest two patterns worth more attention in studies of other industries.

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