1st Edition
The Scottish Miners, 1874–1939 Volume 1: Industry, Work and Community
By Alan Campbell
Copyright 2000
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the nineteenth century, their work situation was transformed in the twentieth as Scotland became the most intensively mechanised of the British coalfields. Grievances generated by this change led to strike rates in Scotland being up to ten and fifteen times... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Coal and capital; The independent collier; Mechanisation; Localities and social structures; Housing, women’s work and gender relations; Authority relations and social order; Ethnic and religious identities; Conclusion; Index.
Biography
Campbell, Alan
'... impressive and scholarly analysis.' English Historical Review '... a massive research project... an impressive range of source materials... painstaking analysis... The two volumes of The Scottish Miners comprise an outstanding contribution to knowledge and represent the highest standards of scholarship.' Scottish Economic and Social History '...a well argued, highly detailed and closely documented account...' Labour History Review 'Alan Campbell's two-volume work [...] represents a tour de force of an often forgotten industrial region... Campbell's two volumes represent a major work of social and labour history.' Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für Soziale Bewegungen
