Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte

Arnold, J�rg

Abstract

This article traces the cyclical trajectory of the British coal miner from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Within less than one generation, the miner turned from doomed industrial proletarian to self-assured embodiment of the future back to doomed proletarian. The renaissance of King Coal in the 1970s proved short-lived, and yet it needs to be taken seriously if one is to understand the nature of the coal strike of 1984/85 and the rundown of the industry that followed. Indeed, the figure of the miner offers a lens for reconfiguring our understanding of the 1970s and British contemporary history more generally, as the article seeks to demonstrate both empirically and conceptually.

Citation

Arnold, J. (2016). Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 42(2), https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2016.42.2.266

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 15, 2016
• Publication Date: Jul 15, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 17, 2016
• Journal: Geschichte und Gesellschaft
• Print ISSN: 0340-613X
• Electronic ISSN: 2196-9000
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2016.42.2.266
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/800713
• Publisher URL: http://www.v-r.de/en/geschichte_und_gesellschaft/m-0/500007/