The Dukeries Transformed. The social and political development of a twentieth century coalfield
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- Author(s) Waller, Robert J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 319pp
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Oral history
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly study dealing with the important development of the coal extraction industry in the Dukeries district of the Nottinghamshire coalfield from the 1920s when it grew to be the most productive in Britain, focusing especially on social and political aspects - migration of workers to the coalfield, establishment of mining villages, impact on the pre-existing communities, etc. See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Social and Political Development of a New Coalfield. The Dukeries, 1913-51', Oxford, 1981. Chapters include: 'Development'; 'Migration'; 'Reactions'; 'Company villages'; 'Trade unionism'; 'Party politics and local goverenment'; 'Education'; 'Religion'; 'Leisure time'; 'War and nationalization'; 'Problems of developing coalfields'; 'The Dukeries model villages as new communities'. A major source for this study is oral evidence and this is briefly reviewed in 'Note on oral evidence' [pp295-7]. Much about the villages of Bilsthorpe, Blidworth, Clipstone, Edwinstowe, Harworth, Ollerton,