Coal Country : : The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland / / Ewan Gibbs.
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 twentie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : University of London Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) :; illustrations (some color), map |
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : Those who walked in the darkest valleys
- 1. 'Buried treasure' : Industrial development in the Scottish coalfields, c. 1940s-80s
- 2. Moral economy : Custom and social obligation during colliery closures
- 3. Communities : 'It was pretty good' in restructured locales
- 4. Gendered experiences
- 5. Generational perspectives
- 6. Coalfield politics and nationhood
- 7. Synthesis. 'The full burden of national conscience' : Class, nation and deindustrialization
- Conclusion : The meaning and memory of deindustrialization
- Appendix : Biographies of oral history participants
- Bibliography
- Index.