Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History
Global Perspectives

This volume considers the dynamics of labour relations, migration and ethnicity in coalfield history from a global perspective.

Ad Knotter (Edited by), David Mayer (Edited by)

9781316601303, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 March 2016

296 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.43 kg

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.

Introduction: migration and ethnicity in coalfield history: global perspectives Ad Knotter and David Mayer
1. Migration and ethnicity in coalfield history: global perspectives Ad Knotter
2. A Zambian town in colonial Zimbabwe: the 1964 'Wangi Kolia' strike Ian Phimister and Alfred Tembo
3. Locals and migrants in the coal mining town of Enugu (Nigeria): worker protest and urban identity 1914–1929 Carolyn Brown
4. Labour control and mobility in Japanese-controlled Fushun coal mine (China), 1907–1932 Limin Teh
5. The uneven recruitment of Korean miners in Japan in the 1910s and 1920s: employment strategies of the Miike and Chikuh? coal mining companies Tom Arents and Norihiko Tsuneishi
6. The dynamics of race and ethnicity in the US coal industry Joe Trotter
7. European workers in Brazilian coal mining, Rio Grande do Sul, 1850–1950 Clarice Speranza
8. Specialists, spies, 'special settlers', and prisoners of war: social frictions in the Kuzbas (USSR), 1920–1950 Julia Landau
9. Migration, ethnicity, and divisions of labour in the Zonguldak coalfield, Turkey Erol Kahveci
10. Dissimilarity breeds contempt: ethnic paternalism, foreigners, and the state in Pas-de-Calais coal mining, France, 1920s Philip Slaby
11. Football, migration, and coal mining in Northern France, 1920s–1980s Marion Fontaine
12. Integration through sports? Polish migrants in the Ruhr Area, Germany Diethelm Blecking.

Subject Areas: Industrialisation & industrial history [HBTK], Social & cultural history [HBTB], History: specific events & topics [HBT], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], General & world history [HBG]