Mining memories: reading coalfield autobiographies

Gildart, Keith

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“…It has been shown, though, that the collective memory of the past can become subject to a construction of a myth, such as a myth of a heroic miner, which can obscure a more complicated story of the miner (Gildart, 2009), and the interpretation of experiences involves not only sharing memories but also collectively silencing them (Palmberger, 2016). For example, research on neighbourhood exclusion has shown that people rarely referred to conflicts that may have occurred in the past (Buffel et al ., 2013).…”

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Ageing in a changing place: a qualitative study of neighbourhood exclusion

Dahlberg

2019

Ageing and Society

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An inclusive neighbourhood is a key facilitator enabling older adults to age in place. Neighbourhoods have been identified as a dimension of social exclusion important to older adults, and it has been argued that older adults are particularly vulnerable to neighbourhood change. The aim of this study was to explore older adults’ experiences of neighbourhood exclusion within the context of neighbourhood change. Focus groups were undertaken in the urban and rural areas of a metropolitan borough in England involving a total of 41 older adults, with data analysed via thematic analysis. Urban areas in the borough studied have transformed following the closure of the mining industry, with a high level of deprivation in many areas, while some rural areas have undergone gentrification. Within the context of structural neighbourhood change, four themes were identified: community cohesion, political agency, feelings of safety and the physical environment. The themes were interlinked, which calls for collaboration across traditional lines of professional responsibility, and for research that encompasses different aspects of neighbourhood exclusion. This study contributes with knowledge on older adults’ experiences of exclusion, including novel findings on the importance of political agency and collective memory, and identifies actions to combat exclusion. An active involvement of older adults in the development of initiatives to tackle social exclusion is recommended.

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Ageing in a changing place: a qualitative study of neighbourhood exclusion

Dahlberg

2019

Ageing and Society

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“…All the managers featured in this article came from mining families or coalfield areas and most started out as miners in the industry. Oral history and published autobiographies have offered considerable value to sociologists of work, as well as historians, in studying work identities (Strangleman, 2001; Strangleman and Warren, 2008), with mining providing a particularly rich seam of unpublished and published autobiographies (Gildart, 2009) and substantial oral history collections (McIvor and Johnston, 2007). Capturing the power of such autobiographical sources to provide insights into identity and ideology, Alessandro Portelli (1981: 99) observed: ‘the unique and precious element which oral sources force upon the historian and which no other sources possess in equal measure (unless it be literary ones) is the speaker’s subjectivity: and therefore, if the research is broad and articulated enough, a cross-section of the subjectivity of a social group or class’.…”

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Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994

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Gildart

2022

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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This article examines managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry. On nationalisation in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) – after 1987 the British Coal Corporation – became the largest socialised industry outside of the Communist bloc. Privatised in 1994, as part of liberal market reforms, the industry was a crucible for ideological clashes amongst managers. The article responds to interest in the impact of managerial ideologies and identities on organisations and in the search for illuminating historical case studies in different organisational settings. The authors position those ideological clashes, and distinctive managerial identities, within a moral economic framework.

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“…Le choc de la confrontation entre mineurs et nouveaux apprentis permet donc d'envisager les enjeux de la masculinité sous un angle complémentaire à celui qui est généralement adopté dans les travaux sur les Bevin Boys : alors que, sur ce plan, ils sont généralement comparés par l'historiographie à la masculinité hégémonique des combattants 14 , nous nous intéressons ici à la confrontation entre Bevin Boys et viri-lité de hard man du mineur. Comme le souligne l'historien des mines Keith Gildart, « les histoires de ceux qui sont non virils, des bullied [ceux qui sont persécutés], des atypiques, n'apparaissent généralement pas dans les pages de l'histoire minière 15 ». Les Bevin Boys se révèlent dès lors particulièrement précieux pour interroger, en miroir, la virilité minière et les contours de la respectabilité dans ce milieu.…”

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« C’est très drôle un Bevin Boy qui joue au mineur. » Humour au travail et masculinité dans les bassins miniers britanniques en guerre

Mak¹

2021

Le Mouvement Social

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Mining memories: reading coalfield autobiographies

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Ageing in a changing place: a qualitative study of neighbourhood exclusion

Ageing in a changing place: a qualitative study of neighbourhood exclusion

Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994

« C’est très drôle un Bevin Boy qui joue au mineur. » Humour au travail et masculinité dans les bassins miniers britanniques en guerre

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