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Author_Alan Campbell
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Coal Company
Coal Owners
coalfield communities
Community
Cross Bars
Deputy Grand Master
East Wemyss
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Fife Coal Company
Fife Coalfield
Fife Miners
Flute Band
gender and class dynamics
historical sociology coal mining
History
industrial relations
Industry
James King
labour history
Lanarkshire Miners
Large Families
Larkhall District
Lothian Coal Company
Loyal Orange Institution
Machine Mining
mechanisation impact
Miners
Mining Population
Park Street
Police Baton Charge
Scots Coalfields
Scottish
Scottish Coal Industry
social protest Scotland
United Collieries
Wemyss Coal Company
West Central Region
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780815382546
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the nineteenth century, their work situation was transformed in the twentieth as Scotland became the most intensively mechanised of the British coalfields. Grievances generated by this change led to strike rates in Scotland being up to ten and fifteen times higher than in the major English coalfields. Such militancy displayed considerable geographical variation however, and the translation of grievances into industrial conflict was mediated by variables rooted in the community as well as the pit. A central theme of this volume is to explore the differences between the four principal mining regions in Scotland through the detailed study of ten localities within them. This innovative, two-tiered comparison is used to analyse the competing loyalties of class, gender and ethnicity, to map the uneven terrain of popular protest and social disorder, and to challenge traditional stereotypes of ’a peaceable kingdom’. This historical sociology of the Scottish coalfields frames the analysis of trade unionism and politics which is developed in the companion volume to this book.
