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Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies

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Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. 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. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.

Author Biography:

Professor Stefan Berger, Dr Andy Croll and Norman LaPorte are all from the University of Glamorgan, UK. Stefan Berger, Andrew Taylor, Neil Evans, Dick Geary, Janet Wells Greene, Bert Hogenkamp, Meredith Fletcher, Sean Patrick Adams, Carolyn A. Brown, Leen Beyers, Stephen Catterall, Keith Gildart, Brian McCook, Ronald L. Lewis, W. Donald Smith, Rene Leboutte, Peter Alexander, Leighton James, John McIlroy, Alan Campbell.
Release date Australia
July 27th, 2005
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Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Edited by Stefan Berger
Pages
298
ISBN-13
9780754637776
Product ID
27112564

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