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The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939 - Volume 1: Industry, Work and Community (Hardcover)
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The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939 - Volume 1: Industry, Work and Community (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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