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Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner
Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated.
Key features
Examines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process
Uses generational analysis to explain economic and political change
Relates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfare
Analyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safety
Relates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of TablesAbbreviations
Introduction: Scottish Coal Miners and Economic Security
Part One. Legislation: Ownership and WelfareChapter 1 Changing Ownership and EmploymentChapter 2 Changing Communities and CollieriesChapter 3 Improving Safety
Part Two. Education: Political Learning and ActivityChapter 4 Generational learning: from the 1920s to the 1950sChapter 5 Miners and the Scottish Nation: from the 1950s to the 1970s
Part Three. Organisation: For Jobs, Wages and CommunitiesChapter 6 Resisting Closures and Winning Wages in the 1960s and 1970sChapter 7 Campaigning For Jobs and Communities in the 1980s
Legacy and ConclusionBibliography
