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The British miner in the age of de-industrialization : a political and cultural history

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The British miner in the age of de-industrialization : a political and cultural history

Call No. (NDL)
DL93-D2
Bibliographic ID of National Diet Library
032919843
Material type
図書
Author
Jörg Arnold
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
[2024]
Material Format
Paper
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xx, 328 pages ; 24 cm
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-
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Material Type
図書
ISBN
0198887698
9780198887690 hardbound
Author/Editor
Jörg Arnold
Author Heading
Publication Date
[2024]
著作権日付 : ©2024
Publication Date (W3CDTF)
2024
Extent
xx, 328 pages
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
Size
24 cm
Place of Publication (Country Code)
GB
Text Language Code
eng
Genre/Form Terms
Content Type
text
Media Type
unmediated
Carrier Type
volume
NDLC
Target Audience
一般
Note (Content)
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 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). 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. The miners, 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
Note (Bibliography)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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国立国会図書館
Call No.
DL93-D2
Data Provider (Database)
国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書
Bibliographic ID (NDL)
032919843
Cataloging Rule
RDA
Bibliographic Record Category (NDL)
211