Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century / / Jim Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Jim,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Brings to light the vital role coal miners played in the social and political history of 20th century ScotlandThroughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland’s economic, social and political history. It highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that helped create the conditions for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The author also uses the experiences of the miners to explore working class wellbeing more broadly throughout the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that culminated in the Thatcherite assault of the 1980s.Key FeaturesAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyExamines deindustrialisation as a long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to debates about economic security and working class welfareRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- The Auld Union Banner -- Introduction: Scottish Coal Miners and Economic Security -- Part One Legislate: Ownership and Welfare -- CHAPTER 1 Changing Ownership and Employment -- CHAPTER 2 Changing Communities and Collieries -- CHAPTER 3 Improving Safety -- Part Two Educate: Political Learning and Activity -- CHAPTER 4 Generational Learning: from the 1920s to the 1950s -- CHAPTER 5 Miners and the Scottish Nation: from the 1950s to the 1970s -- Part Three Organise: for Jobs, Wages and Communities -- CHAPTER 6 Resisting Closures and Winning Wages in the 1960s and 1970s -- CHAPTER 7 Campaigning for Jobs and Communities in the 1980s -- Legacy and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index