This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.
Edited by:
Stefan Berger,
Peter Alexander
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367198688
ISBN 10: 0367198681
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 07 October 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander Chapter 1: Mining History: Sub-Fields and Agendas Stefan Berger Chapter 2: Archaeology of mining in the pre-industrial age: the recognition and interpretation of ancient mines Simon Timberlake Chapter 3: Engineering changes: The cause and consequence of modern mining methods at Butte, Montana; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Broken Hill, New South Wales Jeremy Mouat Chapter 4: A comparative account of deep-level gold mining in India and South Africa: Implications for Workers’ Lives Dunbar Moodie Chapter 5: Local moments in mining history. Some ideas on the relationship between foreign and native in Mexican silver mining Alma Parra Chapter 6: Coal-mining, migration and ethnicity: a global history Ad Knotter Chapter 7: Culture and classed identity in shaping unionisation on mines Peter Alexander Chapter 8: Feminising an ancient human endeavour: Gendered spaces in mining Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Chapter 9: Accidents and mining: The problem of the risk of explosion in industrial coal mining in global perspective Michael Farrenkopf Chapter 10 On Fatalities, Accidents and Accident Prevention in Coal Mines: Colliers’ Safety Discourse in Oral Testimony from the Ruhr in Germany and the Witbank Collieries in South Africa Paul Stewart and Dagmar Kift Chapter 11 The state, labour conflicts and coal mining Chris Wrigley Chapter 12 This Land is My Land: Global Indigenous Struggles and the Adivasi Resistance in Muthanga (Kerala, India) Pavithra Narayanan Chapter 13 Black Gold and Environmental Enemy No. 1: Towards a Visual History of Coal Stefan Siemer Chapter 14 Environmental History and Global Mining: Towards a Neo-Materialist Approach Timothy J. LeCain Chapter 15 Mining Heritage Stefan Berger Index
Stefan Berger is the Director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Chairman of the Foundation History of the Ruhr. Peter Alexander is the Director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
