The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization by Jörg Arnold
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Description A book which challenges received understandings of the place of the miner in contemporary British history, arguing that the British coal 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.
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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 changeitself.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 ofpreviously 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 wassignificant 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, andhalf 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.
Author Biography
Jörg Arnold is a historian of twentieth-century British and European history. He has published widely on Britain's coalminers and the history of de-industrialisation, urban history, and the history of memory and war. Arnold received his PhD in modern European history from the University of Southampton. He also holds a Staatsexamen degree from Heidelberg University and a BA from Southampton. Before joining the University of Nottingham inOctober 2013, he taught at the University of Freiburg and the University of Edinburgh. Arnold has held numerous research fellowships, most recently a Marie Curie Fellowship with the Freiburg Centre for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).
Details ISBN 0198887698 ISBN-13 9780198887690 Title The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization Author Jörg Arnold Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 352 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:158443894; About Us
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