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‘Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party

Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, F; (2021) ‘Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party. Political Quarterly 10.1111/1467-923X.13000. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Different groups on the left have invested a variety of cultural meanings in the image of the British miner and the mining community. Tracing these over time, this article suggests that mythologised images of the solidaristic miner and the ‘traditional’ mining community flatten and simplify our understanding of the past, and of change over time in Britain’s coalfields in the era of deindustrialisation since the mid-1950s. Oral history interviews conducted in the coalfields suggest that while much has been lost—most importantly, decent jobs, strong local economies and certain community ties—there have also been gains, such as growing egalitarianism in gender roles. Finally, the article suggests that an industrial strategy, but more importantly, a raft of policies such as community wealth building and Foundational Economy strategies are needed to bring back some of what has been lost while also working with the grain of more positive social changes.

Type: Article
Title: ‘Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.13000
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13000
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Author. The Political Quarterly published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Political Quarterly Publishing Co (PQPC). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: deindustrialisation, work, gender, community, coalfields, political economy
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128682
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