Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany - Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales 18901926

Informationen zum Autor Leighton S. James is Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of York Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables Abbreviations Map of the Ruhr industrial districtMap 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, 1914-19265. Miners' trade unionism and political identities, 1918-1926 Conclusion BibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Leighton James, Leighton S. James, S. James Leighton, LEIGHTON S JAMES
• Assisted by: John Callaghan (Editor), Steven Fielding (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780719074974
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7497-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies; Critical Labour Movement Studi; Critical Labour Movement Studies; Critical Labour Movement Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education