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PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd
FORMAT: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781138737877
RRP: £29.99
PAGES: 200
PUBLICATION DATE:
September 30, 2020
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The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939: Volume 1: Industry, Work and Community
This title was first published in 2000. The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the nineteenth century, their work situation was transformed in the twentieth as Scotland became the most intensively mechanised of the British coalfields. Grievances generated by this change led to strike rates in Scotland being up to ten and fifteen times higher than in the major English coalfields. Such militancy displayed considerable geographical variation however, and the translation of grievances into industrial conflict was mediated by variables rooted in the community as well as the pit. A central theme of this volume is to explore the differences between the four principal mining regions in Scotland through the detailed study of ten localities within them.