Jim Phillips

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal minerThroughout 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 featuresExamines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfareAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474452342
• Artikelnr.: 72412410

Autorenporträt

Jim Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. His research examines the historical dimensions of a core problem in our contemporary world: how individuals and communities identify and pursue economic security. He sees work and labour organisation in industrial sectors as central to such security. Jim's analysis of deindustrialisation is framed by notions of justice and the moral economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction: Scottish Coal Miners and Economic Security
Part One. Legislation: Ownership and Welfare
Chapter 1 Changing Ownership and Employment
Chapter 2 Changing Communities and Collieries
Chapter 3 Improving Safety
Part Two. Education: Political Learning and Activity
Chapter 4 Generational learning: from the 1920s to the 1950s
Chapter 5 Miners and the Scottish Nation: from the 1950s to the 1970s
Part Three. Organisation: For Jobs, Wages and Communities
Chapter 6 Resisting Closures and Winning Wages in the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 7 Campaigning For Jobs and Communities in the 1980s
Legacy and Conclusion
Bibliography