The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization: A Political and Cultural History

by Jörg Arnold

The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this perspective, the 1984/85 miners' strike seems a desperate last stand against forces much bigger than the miners themselves -- not just the Thatcher government but the tide of historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198887698
• ISBN13: 9780198887690
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 8.8"