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1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Reference -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Education, Work and Social Change in Britain's Former Coalfield Communities -- The Coalfields in Context -- Structure and Organisation of the Book -- References -- Contextualising the Coalfields: Mapping the Socio-Economic and Cultural Loss of the Coal Industry -- Introduction -- The Tale of Two Billys -- The Half-Life of Coal and the Half-Life of Deindustrialisation -- Discussion -- References |
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Growing-Up in the Interregnum: Accounts from the South Yorkshire Coalfield -- Introduction -- State Management of Economic Change -- An Economic Interregnum -- A New Form of Social Rule? -- References -- A Conflictual Legacy: Being a Coalminer's Daughter -- Introduction -- Hard Lives: Four Generations of a Coalmining Family -- Challenging Over-Simplified Narratives: Unravelling the Lived Complexities of Mining Communities -- Conclusion -- References -- How Education and Training Developed the Mining Workforce: Oral Recollection and Testimonies -- Introduction |
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Education and Training for the Coal Industry: Early Beginnings -- Nationalisation of the Coal Industry: Expansion and Growth of Provision -- Miners' Recollections of Their Education and Training -- The Mining Surveyor -- Area Mining Manager -- Mining Apprentice to Author -- From Miners to Librarians -- From Miner to Ornithologist -- Conclusion -- References -- 'Dirty, Dirty Job. Not Good for Your Health': Working-Class Men and Their Experiences and Relationships with Employment -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Post-World War Two Studies -- Experience of Work |
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The Shift from Manual to Service Sector Work -- Contemporary Studies -- Contextual Information and Methodology -- Findings -- 'Most Men I Know Are in Construction and That Stuff' -- 'I'm Just an Active Guy and Want to Keep Moving' -- 'Dirty, Dirty Job Like. Not Good for Your Health' -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Education, Social Haunting, and Deindustrialisation: Attuning to Ghosts in the Hidden Curriculum -- Introduction -- Lillydown and Lillydown Primary School -- Spectrality, Marxism, and Education -- The Social Relations of Schooling: Tracing Ghosts -- The Way of the Ghost |
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The Paradox of Social Haunting -- Conclusion: The 'Something-To-Be-Done' -- References -- Teaching Industrial History After Deindustrialisation: 'Tracks of the Past' in the Scottish Coalfields -- Introduction -- A Coalfield Heritage -- TOTP 1: Background and Lesson Observations -- TOTP 2: Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- 'I Was Never Very Clever, but I Always Survived!': Educational Experiences of Women in Britain's Coalfield Communities, 1944-1990 -- Introduction -- Class -- Gender -- Imagined Futures -- Experiences of School and the Making of the Self -- Conclusion -- References |
| Summary |
This edited book presents a range of chapters written by new and established authors, drawing on a range of different perspectives and traditions to critically analyse education, work and social change in the former coalfields. Historically, coal was one of Britains major industries, employing over a million men at its peak. But mining was more than an occupation - it was a way of life for those living and working in coalfield communities. Work, leisure, family relations and other dimensions of social life were centred upon the coal industry and its related institutions such as trade unions, working-mens clubs and welfare institutes. These communities have, however, undergone significant social and economic change over time, not least in terms of the pain and suffering associated with the Great Strike of 198485, the successive waves of pit closures which took place thereafter and the eventual demise of the coal industry. The book will be of interest to academics drawing on sociology, social policy, history, geography and other subject disciplines. Robin Simmons is Professor of Education at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research interests lie in the sociology of education, education policy, and the history of education. Robin has led research funded by leading bodies including the Raymond Williams Foundation, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust. He has written extensively on social class, particularly in relation to young peoples experiences of participation and non-participation in education, employment, and work-based learning. Robin is co-editor of Education and Working-Class Youth: Reshaping the Politics of Inclusion published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. Kat Simpson is Senior Lecturer in Education and Community Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research interests lie in education and social class, especially pupils and teachers experiences of schooling in former coalmining communities. She has written extensively on different aspects of deindustrialisation and social haunting. Methodologically, Kat is interested in Marxist ethnography and critical policy analysis. Her book Social Haunting, Education and the Working Class: Reimagining Schooling in a Former Mining Community was published in 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 2, 2022) |
| Subject |
Deindustrialization -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Education -- Great Britain.
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Occupations -- Great Britain
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Social change -- Great Britain
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Deindustrialization -- Social aspects
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Education
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Occupations
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Social change
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Simmons, Robin, editor.
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Simpson, Kat, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031107924 |
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3031107926 |
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