Coal Country by Ewan Gibbs
Brand: University of London Press
Product Description
The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotlands last deep coal mine in 2002 was a milestone event in the nations deindustrialization. Villages and towns across the densely populated Central Belt of Scotland owe their existence to coal minings expansion during the nineteenth century and its maturation in the twentieth. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms they also had profound social cultural and political implications. Coal Country documents this process of deindustrialization and its effects drawing on archival records from the UK government the nationalized coal industry trade unions and transcripts from an extensive oral history project. Deindustrialization we learn progressed slowly but powerfully across the second half of the twentieth century. Coal Country explains the deep roots of economic changes and their political reverberations which continue to be felt to this day. show more
Condition : New
Author : Ewan Gibbs
Weight : 571.32
Publisher : University Of London Press
Language : English
EAN : 9781912702558
ISBN10 : 191270255X
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20211502
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 312 Pages 6 Illustrations Unspecified
Dimensions : 154 X 234 X 21