In Poland, more than 90% of electricity production is based on coal fuel. Meanwhile, the financial situation of the mining industry is quite challenging. Companies in this sector are in debt, generating losses caused by a sharp drop in coal prices and a simultaneous increase in extraction costs...

This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite's trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that...

"Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it...

Minas e mineiros de carvão no Rio Grande do Sul -- Análise quantitativa dos processos trabalhistas das minas entre 1946 e 1954 -- Desertores e insalubres : os mineiros tentam inverter a "ordem das coisas" -- As greves de 1945 a 1946 -- A criação do DACM e a utopia da encampação -- Para...