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

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  • Tim Strangleman
  • Emma Hollywood
  • Huw Beynon
  • Katy Bennett
  • Ray Hudson

Abstract

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.

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  • Tim Strangleman & Emma Hollywood & Huw Beynon & Katy Bennett & Ray Hudson, 1999. "Heritage Work: Re-Representing the Work Ethic in the Coalfields," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 4(3), pages 170-183, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:4:y:1999:i:3:p:170-183
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.286
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    Cited by:

    1. Rachel Pain, 2019. "Chronic urban trauma: The slow violence of housing dispossession," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(2), pages 385-400, February.
    2. Jane Parry, 2003. "The Changing Meaning of Work: Restructuring in the Former Coalmining Communities of the South Wales Valleys," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 17(2), pages 227-246, June.
    3. Shih-Hsien Tseng & Hsiu-Chuan Chen & Tien Son Nguyen, 2022. "Key Success Factors of Sustainable Organization for Traditional Manufacturing Industries: A Case Study in Taiwan," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(22), pages 1-17, November.

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