Introduction: those who walked in the darkest valleys
1. ‘Buried treasure’: industrial development in the Scottish coalfields, c. 1940s–80s
2. Moral economy: custom and social obligation during colliery closures
3. Communities: ‘it was pretty good’ in restructured locales
6. Coalfield politics and nationhood
7. Synthesis. ‘The full burden of national conscience’: class, nation and deindustrialization
Conclusion: the meaning and memory of deindustrialization
Appendix: biographies of oral history participants
Index
Tables
1.1 Male employment in Lanarkshire.
1.2 Female employment in Lanarkshire.
1.3 Unemployment in Lanarkshire.
5.1 Generation, temporality and employment structure in the Scottish coalfields.
Figures
0.1 RCAHMS, Map of the Scottish coalfields (2005).
3.1 Auchengeich Mining Disaster Memorial, Moodiesburn.
6.1 Bob Starrett, ‘Phase 3’, Scottish Marxist, vi (1974), 24.