Scottish coal miners in the twentieth century / Jim Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Jim, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal miners--Scotland--History--20th century.

Coal miners.

Working class--Scotland--Social conditions--20th century.

Working class.

Deindustrialization--Scotland--History--20th century.

Deindustrialization.

Home rule--Scotland--History--20th century.

Home rule.

History.

Social conditions.

Scotland--Politics and government--20th century.

Scotland.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Part 1 Legislate: Ownership and Welfare

1 Changing Ownership and Employment p. 19

2 Changing Communities and Collieries p. 49

3 Improving Safety p. 80

Part 2 Educate: Political Learning and Activity

4 Generational Learning: from the 1920s to the 1950s p. 119

5 Miners and the Scottish Nation: from the 1950s to the 1970s p. 158

Part 3 Organise: for Jobs, Wages and Communities

6 Resisting Closures and Winning Wages in the 1960s and 1970s p. 197

7 Campaigning for Jobs and Communities in the 1980s p. 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.

ISBN:

1474452310

9781474452311

OCLC:

1057738959