“Broken Men” and “Thatcher's Children”: Memory and Legacy in Scotland's Coalfields

2013 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Perchard
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
National Level ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Occupational Socialization ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
National Union ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Collective Narratives

AbstractThis article explores the legacy of the demise of the deep coal mining industry in Scotland. It places particular emphasis on the cultural scars of this process as witnessed through miners' and managers' memories, positioning these within the context of occupational socialization, conflict, and alienation. The piece explores the enduring importance of these cultural scars in shaping broader collective narratives of decline in Scotland, and how responses were manifest in shifting political outlooks and the emergence (at both a local and national level) of a resurgent nationalism from the early 1960s onward. Drawing on the notion of the “cultural circuit,” the article examines how and why personal experience of the loss of the coal industry informed and conformed to the politics of the miners' union in Scotland, the National Union of Mineworkers Scottish Area (NUMSA). As the article makes clear, the program of closures in the industry has left profound psychological scars in coalfield communities—ones that, like the closure of other major industrial sites, shape a powerful national narrative.

scholarly journals Colliery Deputies in the British Coal Industry Before Nationalization

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ackers
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
National Union ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Union History

SummaryThis article challenges the militant and industrial unionist version of British coal mining trade union history, surrounding the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the National Union of Mineworkers, by considering, for the first time, the case of the colliery deputies' trade union. Their national Federation was formed in 1910, and aimed to represent the three branches of coal mining supervisory management: the deputy (or fireman, or examiner), overman and shotfirer. First, the article discusses the treatment of moderate and craft traditions in British coal mining historiography. Second, it shows how the position of deputy was defined by changes in the underground labour process and the legal regulation of the industry. Third, it traces the history of deputies' union organization up until nationalization in 1947, and the formation of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS). The article concludes that the deputies represent a mainstream tradition of craft/professional identity and industrial moderation, in both the coal industry and the wider labour movement.

The Trend toward Total Quality Managment in Australian Coal Mining

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-340
Author(s):  
J.T. Jeffreys
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Face ◽  
Coal Market ◽  
Australian Coal ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

The paper examines the trends and techniques now being adopted by the Australian coal mining industry to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the face of an increasingly difficult international and domestic coal market. Quality Assurance certification to internationally accepted standards has been gained by some operators whilst many more companies are implementing varied forms of Total Quality Control concepts. These concepts now so well established in traditional manufacturing industries, have not previously been associated with the vagaries of the coal industry but are now being pursued by many in an effort to gain or retain a competitive edge. The paper also explains some of the actual processes being undertaken by the mining companies and outlines some of the systems being developed and utilised to undertake preliminary analysis and evaluation of existing and proposed management systems prior to implementing TQC systems.

CURRENT STA TE OF THE RESOURCE BASE OF COAL MINING INDUSTRY IN KUZBASS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
S.V. Shaklein ◽  
◽  
M.V. Pisarenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Underground Method

Analysis of the grade composition of the mineral resource base of the distributed and undistributed subsoil Fund as of 01.01.2018 showed a decrease in reserves of coal intended for open pit mining. In the future, the production of a number of technological grades of coal (gas fat (GZh), fat (Zh), coking fat (KZh), coking (K), coking caking low-metamorphized (KCN), coking caking (KC), lean caking (OC), low caking (CC) is possible only by underground method. The expansion of the raw material base of the Kuzbass coal industry and the support of coal production volumes, primarily by the technological of grades coking fat (KZh), coking (K), coking caking (KC), lean caking (OC), low caking (CC) involves exploration, the use of unconventional production technologies and tax preferences for coal mining enterprise

Quantifying SWOT analysis for the Indian coal mining industry using Fuzzy DEMATEL

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorokhaibam Khaba ◽  
Chandan Bhar
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
Quality Improvement Initiative ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Coal Mining Industry ◽  
Indian Coal

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis for the Indian coal mining industry using Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory. Design/methodology/approach After obtaining 17 factors from literature and expert opinion, an interview questionnaire was designed and tested to assure the content validity of questionnaire. A group of 15 qualified experts consisting of 4 professors from academic institutions and 11 management professionals from mining sector with substantial experience were consulted. Findings The result from causal relationship implied that the decision makers should focus on improving the ability of exploitation and production using quality improvement initiative such as lean production, developing research and development units for clean coal technology and working with strong exporters. This study also finds that foreign investment in mining sector is also a main factor that highly influences other factors. Research limitations/implications The study is based on personal judgments and the shortage of respondents limits the study to ensure the validity. Practical implications The stated strategies both for the government and industry through SWOT analysis could facilitate improved productivity of the Indian coal industry if adopted. Originality/value This paper demonstrates a process for quantitative SWOT analysis for the Indian coal mining industry that can be performed even when there is dependence among factors.

Heritage Work: Re-Representing the Work Ethic in the Coalfields

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Strangleman ◽  
Emma Hollywood ◽  
Huw Beynon ◽  
Katy Bennett ◽  
Ray Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Coal Mining Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to discover how, with the decline and ending of the deep coal mining industry in many parts of the UK its legacy is being re-evaluated by those involved in various aspects of economic and social regeneration. It opens by exploring the way coal mine workers and their communities have been seen within popular and academic accounts, and in particular the way this group has been subject to ideal typification and stereo-typing. The main body of the paper examines the way this legacy is still subject to such interpretation, and that further, the specificity of the coal industry is commodified in a variety of ways. We point out the contradictory nature of this process and argue that it is inevitably damaging to a complex analysis of the deep problems facing former coalfield areas.

Socio-economic Decline and Adaptation: South Yorkshire's Former Coalfields

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Murray ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Keith Ridgway ◽  
Belinda Winder
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Coal Mining Industry ◽  
Alternative Employment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Account

Two decades after the year-long miners' strike of 1984/5, this paper presents a contemporary account of the social and economic situation faced by ex-miners in South Yorkshire, uncovering those factors that continue to inhibit new employment and adaptation following the contraction of the coal industry. Forty-one in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with men who had worked in the region's coal mining industry for varying periods of time. The interviews were designed to examine many of the problems that have emerged following deindustrialisation and assess appraisals of retraining provision and prospects for employment. Findings increase understanding of issues endemic to many former pit villages including continuing high levels of localised unemployment and disproportionately high numbers of incapacity benefit claimants. A greater understanding of the reluctance of individuals to adapt, retrain and seek new, alternative employment will lead to more successful methods of dealing with the problems associated with continuing economic inactivity in the region's former coalfield communities and has many important consequences for existing regeneration programmes and employment initiatives.

scholarly journals GIS METHODS FOR MONITORING TECHNOGENIC DISTURBANCE OF LAND IN THE SVERDLOVSK COAL DISTRICT (LUHANSK REGION)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
N.V. Petkova ◽  
◽  
B.Y. Kornienko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Industry Waste ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Gis Methods ◽  
And Control

Currently, the coal industry is one of the environmentally unfriendly industries of the world economy. Industrial activities of coal mining enterprises lead to pollution of the atmosphere and other living environments most strongly associated with the atmosphere, especially the soil, causing considerable damage to natural ecosystems, land use and other sphere of human activities. The possibility of using geoinformation technologies and remote sensing data in solving the problems of man-made violation of territories in areas of coal mining is presented in this report. A method for determining the location of coal mining waste heaps and updating their spatial characteristics using geoinformation systems based on satellite data from open sources is proposed. The research was carried out on the example of the Sverdlovsk district of the Luhansk region, where the tasks of accounting and control, utilization and reclamation of coal industry waste are of paramount importance. As a result of the study, all available waste heaps of the coal mining industry in the study area were identified and described. The problem of inappropriate land use occupied by waste from the coal industry is considered. Examples of mapping processes of formation of rock dumps based on historical high-resolution images are given

scholarly journals Strategizing of transformations in the coal mining industry of Kuzbass

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-327
Author(s):  
A. V. Myaskov ◽  
G. F. Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Energy Markets ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Coal Mining Industry ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Mineral Wealth ◽  
Important Region

Preparing for the 300th anniversary of Kuzbass it is important to remember that coal mining has always been the basis of the region’s development, of building up a vast net of towns and cities, of the economic freedom of the region. Coal has always been and will forever remain the mineral wealth of Kuzbass. No other region of Russia enjoys it in such abundant concentration. Reasonable exploration of this resource, its mining and processing ensure the future development of the region, contributing to many other social, industrial and infrastructural projects. Simultaneously, the widespread demonization of coal has recently been increasing due to climate and environment changes interpreted and promoted by populist ecological movements. So coal mining and coal generation are blamed for all the environmental disasters on the Earth. At the same time coal as the main energy carrier occupies less place in the fuel and energy balance of Russia. Thus, strategizing of coal mining industry of Kuzbass as the leading coal region of the country is the acute problem both from the scientific and practical viewpoint. The way it is solved will determine the life and the vector of development of an important region of Russia. The article outlines the basic problems of development of coal industry, the trends affecting the current situation at the energy markets and the situation in the coal mining industry of Kuzbass.

scholarly journals Trade-offs Between Severance Tax Revenues and Coal Mining Employment

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill L. Findeis ◽  
James S. Shortle
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Coefficient Estimates ◽  
Industry Growth ◽  
Price Elasticities ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Output Coefficient

A severance tax can provide local jurisdictions with additional revenues to finance economic development, yet the imposition of a tax may create coal industry employment losses. This research analyzes this issue by examining the demand for Pennsylvania steam coal, providing estimates of the unconditional own price elasticities of demand for coal in each of two demand regions. These estimates in conjunction with labor/output coefficient estimates are used to determine the extent to which coal employment in a region already witnessing slow mining industry growth will be negatively affected.

Indian Coal Exploration Scenario

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-111
Author(s):  
V.D. Manjrekar
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Indian Coal ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Tier System

The Indian Coal Mining Industry, which now ranks 5th in the world, was started in 1975. After initial sporadic efforts the thrust for coal exploration was given only after independence. The real impetus to the exploration was received after industrialisation of the coal industry in 1971–72 and 1973–74. The National Policy of coal exploration is well defined and is subjected to national level co-ordination by the Planning Commission of the country. For the purpose of exploration, coalfields have been divided into types which consider basinal area of coalfields and category-based on coverage by exploration of potential coal bearing areas. About seventy four coalfields are covered under various exploration systems. India has a three tier system of coal exploration viz. regional, detailed and production support exploration. Most modern techniques are being employed for coal exploration including remote-sensing, HRSS, well logging, geo-engineering investigations, physico-chemical and physico-mechanical studies, hydrogeological investigations and computer applications. The National Coal Inventory placed the reserves of the nation at about 196 billion tonnes which could be augmented by further exploration to about 239 billion tonnes. To this about, 620 billion tonnes of futuristic resources could also be added in the distant future.

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