Towards a comparative history of coalfield societies - Berger, Stefan; Croll, Andy, 1948-; Laporte, Norman (Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2005)
So many cases but so little comparison : problems of comparing mineworkers / Andrew Taylor -- Two faces of king coal : the impact of historiographical traditions on comparative history in the Ruhr and South Wales / Stefan Berger and Neil Evans -- The myth of the radical miner / Dick Geary -- Cameras in the coalfields : photographs as evidence for comparative coalfield history / Janet Wells Green -- A mining film without a disaster is like a western without a shoot-out : representations of coal mining communities in feature films / Bert Hogenkamp -- Modernity or "slaves of the lamp"? : independence and control in two state coal mining communities in Victoria, Australia / Meredith Fletcher -- A comparison between the Richmond coal basin and Pennsylvania's anthracite fields : slave labour, free labour and the political economy / Sean Patrick Adams -- Nigerian coal miners, protest and gender, 1914-1949 : a pilot project on the Iva Valley mining community / Carolyn A. Brown -- Everyone black? : ethnic, class and gender identities at street level in a Belgian mining town, 1930-1950 / Leen Beyers -- Outsiders : trade union responses to Polish and Italian coal miners in two British coalfields / Stephen Catteral and Keith Gildart -- The struggle for Polish autonomy and the question of integration in the Ruhr and northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1914 / Brian McCook -- Networking among Welsh coal miners in nineteenth-century America / Ronald L. Lewis -- Gender and ethnicity in Japan's Chikuho coalfield / W. Donald Smith -- Coal mining, foreign workers and mine safety : steps towards European integration, 1946-1985 / René Leboutte -- A moral economy, an isolated mass and paternalized migrants : Transvaal Colliery strikes, 1925-49 / Peter Alexander -- Trade union development in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1914 / Leighton James -- Coalfield leaders, trade unionism and communist politics : exploring Arthur Horner and Abe Moffat / John McIlroy and Alan Campbell.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Coal miners -- Cross-cultural studies; Coal miners -- Labor unions