INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE STRIKE PROPENSITY OF COAL MINERS: EXPERIENCE IN FOUR COUNTRIES

A comparison of available data on coal miners’ strikes in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany since the first decade of this century reveals the following patterns.

(1) As indicated by Tables 1 and 2, the United States and Britain had substantially more strikes and larger yearly man-day strike losses relative to employment than the continental countries.