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- ISBN-13
- 9780198887690
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- 9780198887690
- Book Title
- British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization : a Political and Cultural History
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- History & Theory, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 25.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this perspective, the 1984/85 miners' strike seems a desperate last stand against forces much bigger than the miners themselves -- not just the Thatcher government but the tide of historical change itself. In this ground-breaking study, Jörg Arnold challenges a declinist reading of the people working in one of Britain's most important energy industries. The study makes extensive use of previously inaccessible records to offer a new account of the British miner in the age of de-industrialisation. The book situates the miners in broader structures of feeling, and reconstructs the miners' sense of the past and the future. Arnold argues that Britain's miners went through a cyclical movement -- from loser to winner and back again -- as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century. The book reinserts the industry's 'new dawn' of the 1970s into the story of coal and shows that the miners wielded real power. The industry's reversal of fortunes, inscribed in Plan for Coal (1974), proved short-lived. It was significant all the same. Its significance, the book argues, did not lie in affecting the long-term trajectory of the coal industry. Rather, the 'new dawn' was important in raising the political and cultural stakes. The miners found themselves at the centre of sharply conflicting visions of the future at a critical juncture in Britain's history. The figure of the coal miner became invested with sharply contrasting characteristics: hero and villain, underdog and enemy, proletarian traditionalist and standard bearer of Socialist advance. The miners were no mere spectators in this process. They were agents, thought to be uniquely powerful by their numerous opponents, and half believing in this power themselves. The miners' special nature, however, jarred with the aspiration to lead an ordinary life, producing tensions that were most cruelly exposed in the year-long strike of 1984/1985.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198887698
ISBN-13
9780198887690
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15061245971
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Book Title
British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization : a Political and Cultural History
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
25.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd8039.M62
Table of Content
Introduction: From Loser to Winner and Back AgainPart I: From Loser to Winner1. 19672. 19723. 19774. 1981Part II: And back again5. 19846. 19877. 19928. 1997Conclusion: The British Miner in HistoryAppendix: Statistical Tables
Dewey Decimal
331.762233409410904
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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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