Cover -- Half Tilte Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Frontispiece -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- I. Background to Nationalization -- The Sankey Commission -- Disputes and Settlements -- The Buckmaster and MacMillan Inquiries -- The Samuel Commission -- Miners' Welfare. -- Working Facilities -- Amalgamations -- Central Selling -- War-time Organization -- The Reid Report -- 2. The Process of Nationalization -- The National Coal Board -- Functions of the National Coal Board -- Ministerial and ParliamentaryControl -- Consumers' Councils -- Transferring theIndustry -- Compensation Provisions -- 3. The New Organization -- Transition -- The New Order -- The National Headquarters -- The Divisions -- The Areas -- The Collieries -- The Burrows Committee -- 4. How Coal is Mined -- Coal Formation and Resources -- Shafts and Roadways -- Extracting the Coal -- Mechanized Mining -- Ventilation, Lighting and Drainage -- Subsidence -- Coal Preparation -- Coal Products -- Opencast Working and Drift Mining -- 5. Planned Production -- The New Conditions -- Early Improvements -- Long-term Projects -- The National Plan -- Scienceand Mining -- 6. The Board's Employees -- Manpower and Training -- Output and Absenteeism -- Wages and Conditions of Service -- Trade Union Representation -- Conciliation -- Consultation -- Welfare -- Safety and Health -- 7. Marketing -- Coal Classification -- The Transport of Coal -- Coal Distribution -- Coal Supplies Organization -- Marketsand Prices -- 8. The Finances of the Industry -- The Board's Accounts -- Capital, Liabilities and Assets -- Trading Results -- The Cost of Coal -- Appendix 1. Suggestions for Further Reading -- Appendix 2. Some Graphs for the Period 1927-1949 -- 1. Saleable Output -- 2. Exports -- 3. Number of Workers -- 4. Output per Manshift -- Index.