Coal: For Miners or Consumers?

In: Economic affairs: journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 49-50

Abstract

Nationalisation promised to run the coal industry efficiently in the public interest. But nationalisation is politicisation. The consumer is replaced by party politics. Despite surplus stocks, the National Union of Mineworkers under Arthur Scargill resists concentration on the most efficient pits. The industry has become an engine not for coal production but for Job preservation.