Throughout 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 formulati...

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1. Verfasser:	Phillips, Jim 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2019]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-2000 Bergmann Politik Arbeitskampf Schottland
Zusammenfassung:	Throughout 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. -- Publisher
Beschreibung:	ix, 316 Seiten 8 Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781474452311