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This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the discourse of the trade unions and political parties in the two regions to reveal how they constructed organisational identities between 1890 and 1926. -- .

Table of Contents

List of tables
Abbreviations
Map of the Ruhr industrial district
Map of the south Wales coalfield
Introduction
1. The growth of the coal industries
2. Trade union discourses, 1890-1914
3. Political languages, 1890-1914
4. The Great War and the post-war years, 1914-1926
5. Miners’ trade unionism and political identities, 1918-1926
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719074974, 978-0719074974
      ISBN10: 0719074975

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the discourse of the trade unions and political parties in the two regions to reveal how they constructed organisational identities between 1890 and 1926. -- .

      Table of Contents

      List of tables
      Abbreviations
      Map of the Ruhr industrial district
      Map of the south Wales coalfield
      Introduction
      1. The growth of the coal industries
      2. Trade union discourses, 1890-1914
      3. Political languages, 1890-1914
      4. The Great War and the post-war years, 1914-1926
      5. Miners’ trade unionism and political identities, 1918-1926
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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