The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939: Volume 1: Industry, Work and Community

by Alan Campbell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138737887
• ISBN13: 9781138737884
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge