Huw Beynon is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and author of, among other things, Working for Ford, which has become a classic. Ray Hudson is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham and a decorated member of the Royal Geographical Society. His books include Approaches to Economic Geography, winner of the Regional Studies Association Best Book Award 2017.
List of Maps
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
1. Two Coalfields, Two Labour Traditions
2. State Ownership
3. Power Politics
4. From Heath to Thatcher
5. Conflagration: The State Against the Miners
6. Of Managers and Markets
7. Thatcher's Redundant Entrepreneurs
8. Sticking Together and Falling Apart
9. Regeneration?
10. ‘Just Jobs’
11. The Fabric of Decline
12. Tragic Outcomes
13. Monsters and Ghosts
14. Building from the Past
15. The People Speak Out
Conclusions and Reflections
Postscript
Acknowledgements
Note on Sources
Notes
Index
