Fighting for the soul of coal: Colliery closures and the moral economy of nationalization in Britain, 1947–1994

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q4 BUSINESS Enterprise & Society Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI:10.1017/eso.2024.6
Andrew Perchard, Keith Gildart, Ben Curtis, Grace Millar
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In this article, we explore the impact of colliery closure programs across the nationalized British coal industry. We chart the regional disparities in these and the mobilization of community opposition to national protests, leading to the national miners’ strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984–5. This article demonstrates how closures have changed the industrial politics of mining unions for miners, junior officials, and managers and have increasingly alienated NCB officials and mining communities. We demonstrate how this undermined the ideals of nationalization. This is examined through moral economic frameworks and within the context of changes to the UK’s energy mix, with implications for contemporary deliberations on public ownership, energy transitions, and regional development.

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为煤炭的灵魂而战:1947-1994 年英国关闭煤矿和国有化的道德经济学
在这篇文章中,我们探讨了关闭煤矿计划对英国国有化煤炭工业的影响。我们描绘了其中的地区差异,以及从社区反对到全国抗议的动员过程,最终导致了 1972 年、1974 年和 1984-5 年的全国矿工罢工。本文展示了关闭如何改变了矿工、初级官员和管理人员的矿业工会工业政治,以及如何日益疏远国家矿业委员会官员和矿业社区。我们展示了这如何破坏了国有化的理想。文章通过道德经济框架并结合英国能源结构的变化对这一问题进行了研究,并对当代有关公有制、能源转型和地区发展的讨论产生了影响。
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期刊介绍: Enterprise & Society offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries and grounded in a broad historical framework are welcome, as are innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and its context.
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