Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History: Global Perspectives (International Review of Social History Supplements)

Cambridge University Press, 3/17/2016
EAN 9781316601303, ISBN10: 1316601307

Paperback, 296 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English

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 Chikuhō 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.