struction of labour identities in the Ruhr and South Wales can be. .It lasted until approximately

struction of labour identities in the Ruhr and South Wales can be summed up as. follows. From 1890 up until the mid-1920s, the development of the miners’ move-. In the Ruhr, the miners’ movement was generally characterized by fragmentation; the union move-. ment fractured on lines of religion and ethnicity. It lasted until approximately. 1926 (the end point of this study), when the process of homogenization in indus-. The establishment of the SWMIU.

This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the south Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the public discourse of the trade unions and political parties as disseminated in local newspapers, trade union publications, pamphlets, and election leaflets. It reveals how the miners' movements utilized ideas such as class, religion, the "people" or "Volk", socialization, and nationalization to construct organizational identities during the turbulent period between 1890 and 1926.

Taking the south Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the . Critical Labour Movement Studies.

Taking the south Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the public discourse of the trade unions and political parties as it was disseminated in local newspapers, trade union publications, pamphlets and election leaflets. This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany.

Keywords: civil society, Britain, Germany, politics, identity, miners, Ruhr, South Wales.

In the round, this is a stimulating book, not least for bringing to the fore the voices of ordinary people, rather than those of statesmen and intellectuals.

Readers of the Austrian History Yearbook should note that James incorporates all the German lands, including those of German-speakers from the Habsburg realm. James ultimately offers nuanced coverage of a crucial and traumatic phase of Central European history. In the round, this is a stimulating book, not least for bringing to the fore the voices of ordinary people, rather than those of statesmen and intellectuals. European History Quarterly.

and Civil Society in Britain and Germany : Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926.

book by Leighton S. James. The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany : Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926. by Leighton S.

by Leighton S. This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany

by Leighton S. Examining this intersection through discourse analysis and the concept of the "lifeworld," this book brings together the miners' social world and the realm of organized politics to advance historical understanding of two of the most powerful European labor movements.

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews; The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926 by Leighton S. James; Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields by Ronald L. Lewis. The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury by Eric Porter; Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by Barbara Foley.

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Critical Labour Movement Studies

Critical Labour Movement Studies. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate