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The Keelmen of Tyneside - Labour Organisation and Conflict in the North-East Coal Industry, 1600-1830 (Hardcover, New)
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The Keelmen of Tyneside - Labour Organisation and Conflict in the North-East Coal Industry, 1600-1830 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Regions and Regionalism in History
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A comprehensive account of the everyday lives of the keelmen of
Tyneside, and their struggles and industrial disputes. For hundreds
of years the keelmen, the "keel lads o' coaly Tyne" celebrated in
the north-east folk song "The Keel Row", ferried coal down-river to
the estuary and cast it aboard ships bound for London or overseas.
They were "the very sinews of the coal trade" on which the
prosperity of the region depended. This book charts the history of
the keelmen from the early seventeenth century to the point where
technological advances made them redundant in thecourse of the
nineteenth century. It describes how the importance of their work
placed them in a strong position in industrial disputes, especially
since they could shut off the coal supply to London. It examines
their numerous turbulent battles with rapacious employers and
unsympathetic magistrates (often themselves involved in the coal
trade), their struggles against poverty and eventually against
redundancy, and their attempts to gain redress in Parliament and in
the law courts. The book also describes the squalid conditions in
Sandgate where, as recounted in the folk song, many keelmen and
their families lived with a reputation for independence and savage
roughness but exhibited impressive solidarity both as an early
industrial labour organisation and as a tightly-knit, mutually
supportive, and highly self-reliant community. The book will be of
interest to social and economic historians, labour historians,
maritime historians and all interested in the history of the North
East. JOSEPH M. FEWSTER was, until his retirement in 1997, Senior
Assistant Keeper in Durham University Library.
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