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

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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

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
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Throughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland’s economic, social and political history.
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AcknowledgementsList of TablesAbbreviations Introduction: Scottish Coal Miners and Economic Security Part One. Legislation: Ownership and WelfareChapter 1 Changing Ownership and EmploymentChapter 2 Changing Communities and CollieriesChapter 3 Improving Safety Part Two. Education: Political Learning and ActivityChapter 4 Generational learning: from the 1920s to the 1950sChapter 5 Miners and the Scottish Nation: from the 1950s to the 1970s Part Three. Organisation: For Jobs, Wages and CommunitiesChapter 6 Resisting Closures and Winning Wages in the 1960s and 1970sChapter 7 Campaigning For Jobs and Communities in the 1980s Legacy and ConclusionBibliography
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Analyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safety

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474452328
Publisert
2021-02-16
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
411 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

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Biografisk notat

Jim Phillips is Professor in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow, and author of Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and with Valerie Wright and Jim Tomlinson Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy since 1955 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).