Scottish Coal Miners In The Twentieth Century

Author : Jim Phillips
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781474452335

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Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century by Jim Phillips Pdf

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

Author : Andrew Perchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000110440215

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The Mine Management Professions in the Twentieth-century Scottish Coal Mining Industry by Andrew Perchard Pdf

In this book, Dr. Perchard attempts to redress the exclusion of colliery managers and other mining professionals from the history of British, and particularly Scottish, coal industries by examining these groups within the most crucial period of their ascendancy, 1930-1966, in the Scottish coal mining industry. This work seeks to place such persons within their context and to examine their roles, statuses and behaviours through their relationships with employees and the execution of their functions, also examining their terms and conditions of employment, the outlook of their professional associations, and that of their union. Through all this, Dr. Perchard illustrates how this growing consciousness amongst managerial employees in the industry was accompanied by an intense public discussion, within the mining professions, over their future shape, principles and occupational standards.

Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351208130

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The Scottish Miners, 1874–1939 by Alan Campbell Pdf

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 higher than in the major English coalfields. Such militancy displayed considerable geographical variation however, and the translation of grievances into industrial conflict was mediated by variables rooted in the community as well as the pit. A central theme of this volume is to explore the differences between the four principal mining regions in Scotland through the detailed study of ten localities within them. This innovative, two-tiered comparison is used to analyse the competing loyalties of class, gender and ethnicity, to map the uneven terrain of popular protest and social disorder, and to challenge traditional stereotypes of ’a peaceable kingdom’. This historical sociology of the Scottish coalfields frames the analysis of trade unionism and politics which is developed in the companion volume to this book.

Author : Ewan Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : 1912702576

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Coal Country by Ewan Gibbs Pdf

The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland's last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Villages and towns across the densely populated Central Belt owe their existence to coal mining's expansion during the nineteenth century and its maturation in the twentieth. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had profound implications for what it meant to be a worker, a Scot and a resident of an industrial settlement. Coal Country presents the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. It draws on archival research using records from UK government, the nationalized coal industry and trade unions, as well as the words and memories of former miners, their wives and children that were collected in an extensive oral history project. Deindustrialization progressed as a slow but powerful march across the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, big changes in cultural identities are explained as the outcome of long-term economic developments. The oral testimonies bring to life transformations in gender relations and distinct generational workplaces experiences. This book argues that major alterations to the politics of class and nationhood have their origins in deindustrialization. The adverse effects of UK government policy, and centralization in the nationalized coal industry, encouraged miners and their trade union to voice their grievances in the language of Scottish national sovereignty. These efforts established a distinctive Scottish national coalfield community and laid the foundations for a devolved Scottish Parliament. Coal Country explains the deep roots of economic changes and their political reverberations, which continue to be felt as we debate another major change in energy sources during the 2020s.

Author : Robert Page Arnot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000895704

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A History of the Scottish Miners by Robert Page Arnot Pdf

First published in 1955, A History of the Scottish Miners recounts the peculiar circumstances of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the laws that placed the miners under conditions unique in Europe. Carrying onto the nineteenth century, the author deals with the first trade unions, the period of Alexander McDonald and Keir Hardie, ending in the great strike of 1894 and the formation of the Scottish Miners’ Federation, embracing eight county associations. From 1894 onwards, Robert Smillie led the Scots in good times and bad, up to the ordeal of the First World War. The effect in Scotland of the great lockouts of 1921 and 1926, with Robert Smillie no longer chairman of the British miners but still the leader in Scotland, is set out in detail. Then after a time of troubles, the Scots miners developed their organisations during the war and, before its end, under new leaders, they achieved a single union for Scotland. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, economics and political science.

Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 0815382545

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The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939 by Alan Campbell Pdf

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 higher than in the major English coalfields. Such militancy displayed considerable geographical variation however, and the translation of grievances into industrial conflict was mediated by variables rooted in the community as well as the pit. A central theme of this volume is to explore the differences between the four principal mining regions in Scotland through the detailed study of ten localities within them. This innovative, two-tiered comparison is used to analyse the competing loyalties of class, gender and ethnicity, to map the uneven terrain of popular protest and social disorder, and to challenge traditional stereotypes of 'a peaceable kingdom'. This historical sociology of the Scottish coalfields frames the analysis of trade unionism and politics which is developed in the companion volume to this book.

Author : Baron Frederick Duckham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B671579

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A History of the Scottish Coal Industry: 1700-1815 by Baron Frederick Duckham Pdf

Author : Brian Elliott
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473851894

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Coal Miners by Brian Elliott Pdf

There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in that it concentrates on the miner, his family and his work through a careful selection of illustrations. Although most of the images are photographic, and therefore relate to the latter part of the nineteenth to the closing years of twentieth century, use is also made of much earlier sources, from woodcuts and engravings to illustrations in contemporary journals and magazines. A good deal of the material has come from the author's own collection, accumulated over many years of research; and also from archive sources. The selection is wide ranging, covering the traditional coal mining regions of Britain, from Scotland and northern England, through the midland coalfields and to Wales, as well as images from smaller coalfields such as Cumbria and Somerset. Today, coal mining is a virtually a lost industry and the men, women and children involved in what was once Britain's most important economic but most dangerous activity deserve both recognition and celebration.

Author : Hywel Francis,David Smith
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002497357

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The Fed by Hywel Francis,David Smith Pdf

The core of this full length history is the momentous period from the General Strike of 1926 to the nationalization of the mines in January 1947 ... To the treatment of the post Second World War period the authors have added a final chapter assessing the achievements and the problems of the nationalized industry, as well as the role of the miners in the upsurge of industrial militancy that characterized the sixties and seventies." In South Wales Miners' Federation became the South Wales area of the NUM.

Author : Huw Beynon,Ray Hudson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839767982

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The Shadow of the Mine by Huw Beynon,Ray Hudson Pdf

No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN

Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138737887

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The Scottish Miners, 1874¿1939 by Alan Campbell Pdf

Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050551384

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The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939: Industry, work, and community by Alan Campbell Pdf

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 higher than in the major English coalfields. Such militancy displayed considerable geographical variation however, and the translation of grievances into industrial conflict was mediated by variables rooted in the community as well as the pit. A central theme of this volume is to explore the differences between the four principal mining regions in Scotland through the detailed study of ten localities within them. This innovative, two-tiered comparison is used to analyse the competing loyalties of class, gender and ethnicity, to map the uneven terrain of popular protest and social disorder, and to challenge traditional stereotypes of 'a peaceable kingdom'. This historical sociology of the Scottish coalfields frames the analysis of trade unionism and politics which is developed in the companion volume to this book.

Author : Francis. Hywel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:841925214

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The Fed by Francis. Hywel Pdf

Author : Guthrie Hutton
Publisher : Stenlake Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017336566

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Mining by Guthrie Hutton Pdf

The first of our illustrated mining histories to be published, this well documented history has been deservedly successful. Coal mining has been described as Scotland's ghost industry - many of its thriving, coal driven communities have almost completely vanished. To make them live again between the pages of his book, Guthrie Hutton spanned the length and breadth of Ayrshire and Upper Nithsdale, tracking down former miners and unearthing pictures of long-forgotten pits. Among the many locations featured are Auchenharvie, Glenburn, Auchencruive, Drumley, Killoch, Polquhairn, Houldsworth, Pennyvenie, Minnivey, Mauchline, Highhouse, Barony, Kames, Afton, Knockshinnoch Castle, Fauldhead and Killochan. There are over 200 illustrations covering all aspects of mining life.

Author : Frederick Baron Duckham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:86156470

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A History of the Scottish Coal Industry by Frederick Baron Duckham Pdf