Carlston, Kelsey - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 1, pp. 186-207
, employer power, and declining employment. However, miners also enjoyed high earnings, flexible schedules, and company housing …. In this article, I explore intergenerational economic mobility for miners' sons. Using linked full-count US Census data … to explore outcomes for miners' sons compared to other sons, I find that miners' sons usually do worse than manufacturing …