Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:16th Feb '21
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Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland’s economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated. Key features Examines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process Uses generational analysis to explain economic and political change Relates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfare Analyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safety Relates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations
This is an impeccably researched and conceptually ambitious study. -- Alan Campbell, University of Liverpool * Historical Studies in Industrial Relations *
Phillips presents an informative, interesting, and thought-provoking account of the Scottish coal miners who articulated their pursuit of economic security based on class struggle and the assertion of greater political autonomy for Scotland. -- Joe Redmayne, Newcastle University * Labour History Review *
The book is a fitting tribute to the thousands of Scottish miners who toiled underground across the twentieth century and played an essential role in buildinga new society and defending it in the 1980s and 1990s. As an academic text it is a major piece of scholarship that will stand the test of time. However, just as importantly, its empathetic reconstruction of working class culture and politics will ensure that it will be just as warmly received by the general reader with an interest in the history of Scotland. -- Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton * Scottish Labour History *
The book is a fitting tribute to the thousands of Scottish miners who toiled underground across the twentieth century and played an essential role in buildinga new society and defending it in the 1980s and 1990s. As an academic text it is a major piece of scholarship that will stand the test of time. However, just as importantly, its empathetic reconstruction of working class culture and politics will ensure that it will be just as warmly received by the general reader with an interest in the history of Scotland. -- Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton * Scottish Labour History *
Phillips has written a wonderfully rich and deeply rewarding book, ingeniously crafted, immaculately researched, and cogently argued. It sets new standards in the historiography on British miners in the twentieth century. -- Jörg Arnold, University of Nottingham * The Economic History Review *
ISBN: 9781474452328
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 411g
336 pages