Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History by Ad Knotter

Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History by Ad Knotter

Coal has been fundamental for the development of industrial and transport technologies since the nineteenth century. Globalisation, including colonialism, would not have been possible without coal-based energy and thus the exploitation of coal in every part of the world. But coal mining is a labour-intensive activity and mine operators had to find, mobilise and direct workers to these sites to enable exploitation. The recruitment of miners often targeted groups with a perceived inferior status. This turned coal mining communities into dense social spheres characterised by the intricate dynamics of ethnic identifications, interracial relations and class formation. The twelve articles presented in this volume cover cases from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Turkey, the Soviet Union and Western Europe, as well as a broad range of topics, from segregation, forced labour and subcontracting, to labour struggles, discrimination, ethnic paternalism and sports.

Ad Knotter is Professor of Comparative Regional History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Director of the Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg (Center for the Social History of Limburg) at the same university. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of Social History. His areas of research are comparative regional history and historical border studies, the comparative history of mining regions, labour history and migration history. David Mayer is executive editor of the International Review of Social History. In 2011 he completed his PhD on the history of Marxist historiographic debates in Latin America in the 'long 1960s' (University of Vienna). He has spent lengthy research stays in Latin America. His main research interests are the history of social movements, the history of Marxism and left-wing intellectuals, and the history of historiography. He acts as vice-president of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH).

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ISBN 13	9781316601303
ISBN 10	1316601307
Title	Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History
Author	Ad Knotter
Series	International Review Of Social History Supplements
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2016-03-17
Number of pages	296
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