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The Economics of the Coal Company Town: Institutional Relationships, Monopsony, and Distributional Conflicts in American Coal Towns
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
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1 This dissertation was completed in 1993 in the Department of Economics, West Virginia University, under the direction of Donald Adams. Financial support from the Department of Economics and The Institute for Labor Studies, West Virginia University, is gratefully acknowledged.
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