By comparison, the coal mining industry in all of Appalachia employs 31, 000 people, says the National Mining Association.
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Mr Bevin, the then minister for Labour and National Service, introduced the scheme in response to an increasing shortage of labour in the coal mining industry.
But the real damage was to the local coal-mining industry: work has been suspended pending investigation.
This has led to comparisons with Appalachia, which has also relied on a declining extractive industry (coal mining) and has suffered from high unemployment, poverty and a relatively unskilled workforce.
However, even though modern methods and machinery have made the industry safer on the whole, the events last year in the Swansea Valley showed that there is always danger in an industry like coal mining.
These forces are undercutting the coal industry argument that mountaintop mining is an unalloyed good because of the jobs it creates, and bring more companies to the table to talk about reining in their excavators.
The big airlines had warned failure to consider a new runway at Heathrow would make the aviation industry go the same way as shipbuilding and coal mining.
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In the mining industry, even though commodity prices for metals and coal have declined compared to their year-ago levels.
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Another way of thinking about it is the output of manufacturing industry minus any influence from oil, coal or other mining industries.
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William Ramsay Dow director, Scottish Coal Ltd (Crossford, Fife) - For services to the Mining Industry in Scotland.
Although, by 1981, the proportion of Welsh employees working in mining and quarrying was just 3.8%, the coal industry still had a symbolic place at the heart of ideas of the Welsh nation.
Many mining communities never recovered from the dispute that hastened the decline of the coal industry.
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