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Berger, Stefan; Wicke, Christian

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“…8 When these methodological issues are addressed, comparative studies have "tested a range of conceptual ideas in history and established typologies that have brought about a better understanding of the differences and similarities between related historical phenomena." 9 With this in mind, we undertake a detailed and systematic comparison on labor in two different mining regions-one in central Africa, the other in northern China. Our comparative study aims to investigate the close relationship between mining and imperial formation by examining the role of race in organizing work and daily life in these two mining regions.…”

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Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945

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Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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In many ways, the vast industrial complexes that developed on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun coalfields in the early twentieth century were very different places. One on a high plateau stretched out across the border between what is now Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia with a sub-tropical climate; the other on the rolling foothills of Changbai Mountains in what is now Liaoning Province, northeastern China, with a humid continental climate. Yet anyone who visited either of these places would immediately and unavoidably have become aware of a basic fact about both: that racial hierarchies governed life and work on the mines. This article is about that basic fact, and in it we aim to make a two-fold contribution: First, it is a comparative history of mining regions, which, although it might seem an area of study ripe for comparison, is seldom undertaken. Second, through this comparison to argue that the prevalence and significance of race as a way of organizing life and work in the mining industry has been underestimated. We support this claim with an overview of production and everyday life in two seemingly very different mining regions: the Fushun coalfields and the Central African Copperbelt (see figure 1).

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Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945

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“…The socio-economic emphasis of this article takes inspiration from recent interest in the impact of commoditisation and industrialisation on preservation and heritage, including the impact of deindustrialisation since the end of the twentieth century (Lowenthal 2015;Berger and Wicke 2017). Merton Priory testifies to the influence of earlier processes of economic and social change, including commoditisation and industrialisation, on historic remains and their significance.…”

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Heritage before modernity: the afterlife of a dissolved priory

Legon

2021

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This article makes a case for the further exploration of heritage before modernity through an investigation of the afterlife of Merton Priory in Surrey, England. The Augustinian Priory was dissolved in 1538 amid the Henrician Reformation and, thereafter, the site was transformed rapidly into a saleable commodity. As such, the Priory site became an exploitable social and economic resource, especially by textile manufacturers. The article complicates this apparently stark transformation from selfcontained monastery into proto-industrial landscape by acknowledging how the residual Priory buildings were used, viewed, and understood by its post-Reformation owners, especially anti-Catholic Puritans. I argue that the remains were incorporated within a triumphalist account of England's Protestantisation and, by extension, reveal a surprising instinct towards their preservation amid better-known acts of iconoclasm. In doing so, the article emphasises how the rescripting of the site's heritage was a privilege of its owners and that limited opportunities existed to promote alternative accounts of the site's past beyond those which could be mobilised by external, but no less powerful, stakeholders. Indeed, Merton Priory evinces the emergence of efforts by archaeologists and antiquarians to fix the site's historical significance and to dispel the endurance of 'vulgar' rumours about its past.

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Layers of New Green: Postindustrial Landscapes and Identity Formation in the Ruhr Valley, Germany

Eiringhaus¹

2022

Deindustrialisation in Twentieth-Century Europe

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Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945

Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945

Heritage before modernity: the afterlife of a dissolved priory

Layers of New Green: Postindustrial Landscapes and Identity Formation in the Ruhr Valley, Germany

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