Andy Croll

Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Berger, Stefan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume transcends over-arching national models to focus instead on local coal mining societies that can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351878531
• Artikelnr.: 48419335

Autorenporträt

Professor Stefan Berger, Dr Andy Croll and Norman LaPorte are all from the University of Glamorgan, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Stefan Berger; So many cases but so little comparison: problems of comparing mineworkers
Andrew Taylor; Two faces of King Coal: the impact of historiographical traditions on comparative history in the Ruhr and South Wales
Stefan Berger and Neil Evans; The myth of the radical miner
Dick Geary; Cameras in the coalfields: photographs as evidence for comparative coalfield history
Janet Wells Greene; A mining film without a disaster is like a Western without a shoot-out: representations of coal mining communities in feature films
Bert Hogenkamp; Modernity or 'slaves of the lamp'? Independence and control in two state coal mining communities in Victoria
Australia
Meredith Fletcher; A comparison between the Richmond coal basin and Pennsylvania's anthracite fields: slave labour
free labour and the political economy
Sean Patrick Adams; Nigerian coal miners
protest and gender
1914-49: the Iva Valley mining community
Carolyn A. Brown; Everyone black? Ethnic
class and gender identities at street level in a Belgian mining town
1930-50
Leen Beyers; Outsiders: trade union responses to Polish and Italian coal miners in two British coalfields
Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart; The struggle for Polish autonomy and the question of integration in the Ruhr and Northeastern Pennsylvania
1880-1914
Brian McCook; Networking among Welsh coal miners in 19th-century America
Ronald L. Lewis; Gender and ethnicity in Japan's Chikuho coalfield
W. Donald Smith; Coal mining
foreign workers and mine safety: steps towards European integration
1946-85
René Leboutte; A moral economy
an isolated mass and paternalized migrants: Transvaal colliery strikes
1925-49
Peter Alexander; Trade union development in the Ruhr and South Wales
1890-1914
Leighton James; Coalfield leaders
trade unionism and communist politics: exploring Arthur Horner and Abe Moffat
John McIlroy and Alan Campbell; Index.