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PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780754601913

RRP: £80.00

PAGES: 416

PUBLICATION DATE:
January 1, 2000

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The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939: v. 1: Industry, Work and Community

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Throughout the 19th century, explains Campbell (history, U. of Liverpool), the coal miners enjoyed a high degree of autonomy underground, but their work situation was transformed in the 20th when Scotland became the most intensively mechanized of the British coalfields. Grievances followed, and then

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