coke production industry, coal mining, Ostrava-Karviná coalfield, 19th and 20th century

This paper analysis the development of ownership structure in the coal mining and coke production industry in the Ostrava-Karviná coalfield in the late 19th and early 20th century. A turning point in the development of ownership structure could potentially have come in 1906, when was finished the transfromation of biggest mines companies and ironworks.