Split at the seams? : community, continuity, and change after the 1984-5 coal dispute
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Split at the seams? : community, continuity, and change after the 1984-5 coal dispute
Open University Press, 1991
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-212) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book considers the aftermath of the 1984-85 miners' strike. It documents and analyzes the processes of social change within a pro-strike, an anti-strike and a divided community. It focuses on the images of community endorsed in each of the communities, and how they have been affected by the experience of the strike and its aftermath. The book discusses the differential impact on everyday life, especially upon work, gender relations and social networks and the extent to which the strike and its aftermath has shaped attitudes towards authoritative institutions, notably the legal system, the media and politics. It then examines how people view the future of their communities in the 1990s. "Split at the Seams?" aims to provide an insight into the previously neglected processes of change and adjustment taking place in mining communities in the wake of the dispute.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Communities and conflict: community profiles - the ideal-type mining community, a sense of community
- community experience of the strike - strike mobilization, strike maintenance activity, conflict within each community, the termination of the strike, implications for unity. Part 2 Everyday life: work and industrial relations - employee-management relations, relations between workers, trade union activity
- gender relations - work, domestic roles during the strike, women's organizations, role reversal, marriage, women and politics, reverting to normality
- family, social life and leisure - social netwirks, gendered leisure, leisure facilities. Part 3 Authoritative institutions: the legal system - police-community relations during the strike, local police and "outsiders", the judicial process, police-community relations since the strike
- the mass media - media trustworthiness, the prevalence of media bias, source of media bias, the effects of media bias, changing habits, changing attitudes
- the political system - national politics, local politics, political consciousness, political activism. Part 4 Retrospect and prospect: prospects for the future - the future of local mining, the impact of industrial change, the community
- continuity, cataclysm and change - local political cultures and the strike, the remaking of community, the impact of the strike, mining communities and social change. Appendices: method and findings of the survey
- chronology of events during the strike.
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