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Document ID (ISN)103809
CIS number 05-127
Year 1938
Convention or series no. Etudes et Documents - Série B (Conditions économiques) N°31
Title World coal industry. Volume I: Economic issues. Volume II: Social issues
Original title L'industrie charbonnière dans le monde. Volume I: Questions économiques. Volume II: Questions sociales [in French]
Bibliographic information ILO Publications, International Labour Office, 1211 Genève 22, Switzerland, 1938. viii, 299p. Illus. Index. Price: CHF 8.00 (Vol. I); 1938. viii, 400p. Index. Price: CHF 8.00 (Vol. II).
Abstract This report was compiled to serve as a framework for discussions during the Tripartite Technical Meeting for the coal industry held in Geneva in May 1938. Volume I is devoted to economic issues (production, consumption, capacity, trade, competition, prices), while volume II is devoted to social issues (labour force, salary and wages, employment and unemployment, social insurance, working hours, vacations); the chapter on social insurance includes sections on the compensation of occupational accidents and diseases.
Descriptors (primary) ILO; social aspects; coal mining; economic aspects
Descriptors (secondary) report; workmen's compensation; conditions of work
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceILO
Subject(s) Mines and quarries
Broad subject area(s) Industries and occupations
Browse category(ies) Economic aspects
Mining and quarrying