Twenty years on: Has the economy of the UK coalfields recovered?

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1654-1675

  Beatty, Christina ^a   Fothergill, Stephen ^a   Powell, Ryan S ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSURE; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL MINING; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547440207     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38216     Document Type: Article

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