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January 1981

Coal industry resurgence attracts variety of new workers

Harold Wool

Coal companies report no shortage of inexperienced applicants even in Western "coal boom" areas; favorable wages appear to be a major attraction for the new miners, who are younger, more educated than other miners and include a growing number of women.

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