Class, Community, and Collective Action: Social Change in Two British Coalfields, 1850-1926

Abstract

Part 1 Traditions of community. Part 2 Mining communities and collective action: Kerr and Kiegal - the isolated mass and collective action Olson - small groups and collective action Craig Calhoun - communal collective action mining towns and villages as communities. Part 3 South Wales: the valleys the structure of a local society local politics - the axis of change the decline of Mabonism the miners' next step - class action and local autonomy the reorganization of the union the lodge in its community the strikes of the 1920s the strange death of liberal Wales - a sociological revolution? Part 4 Ynysybwl: the role of the chapels the colliery company in the village the decline of the company's influence and the rise of the lodge labour leaders and community leaders the sociology of Ynysybwl strikes. Part 5 Nottinghamshire: socks and the squirearchy butties and sticky cherries religion and the miners the development of a regional society the political sociology of the coalfield Nottinghamshire in the lockouts the social origins of Spencerism? Part 6 Hucknall: before the mines the coming of the pits John Edward Ellis labour relations and working-class organization Hucknall into the 20th-century strikes and Hucknall. Part 7 Class, community and collective action.

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