Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies
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Alan Campbell
Alte Verband
Andrew Taylor
Anthracite Fields
Anthracite Pennsylvania
Archetypal Proletarians
Author_Andy Croll
Belgian Coal Mines
Belgian Coal Mining
Bert Hogenkamp
Bituminous Coal
Brian Mccook
British Coal Trade
British Coalfields
Carolyn A. Brown
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Chikuho Mines
Coalfield Communities
Coalfield Societies
Colliery Workers
comparative coal mining societies
CPGB's Action
Dick Geary
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ethnic and gender dynamics
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
industrial relations
Janet Wells Greene
John Mcilroy
Keith Gildart
Klaus Tenfelde
labour history
Leen Beyers
Leighton James
Meredith Fletcher
mining community studies
Neil Evans
Peter Alexander
RenEboutte
Ronald L. Lewis
Ruhr Coalfield
Sean Patrick Adams
social identity formation
South Wales Area
South Wales Coalfields
South Wales Miners
State Coal Mine
Stephen Catterall
Trade Union Loyalism
transnational labour movements
Vincent Van Gogh
W. Donald Smith
Welsh Coal Miner
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138266414
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. Adopting a regional approach that compares coalfield communities from five continents, this volume reflects coalfield experiences on a truly global scale. By looking at what made communities unique as well as what they shared in common, a much fuller understanding of the workplace, neighbourhood, family, identity and political organization is possible. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.
Professor Stefan Berger, Dr Andy Croll and Norman LaPorte are all from the University of Glamorgan, UK.
