Huw Beynon is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and author of Working for Ford, which has become a classic. Ray Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Durham and a decorated member of the Royal Geographical Society.

This brilliant analysis of the decline of British coal mining, and its social and political effects, is required reading for those who would speak for this working class.

• List of MapsList of Tables and FiguresIntroduction1. Two Coalfields, Two Labour Traditions2. State Ownership3. Power Politics4. From Heath to Thatcher5. Conflagration: The State Against the Miners6. Of Managers and Markets7. Thatcher's Redundant Entrepreneurs8. Sticking Together and Falling Apart9. Regeneration?10. 'Just Jobs'11. The Fabric of Decline12. Tragic Outcomes13. Monsters and Ghosts14. Building from the Past15. The People Speak OutConclusions and ReflectionsPostscriptAcknowledgementsNote on SourcesNotesIndex

Huw Beynon is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and author of Working for Ford, which has become a classic. Ray Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Durham and a decorated member of the Royal Geographical Society.

This brilliant analysis of the decline of British coal mining, and its social and political effects, is required reading for those who would speak for this working class.

• List of MapsList of Tables and FiguresIntroduction1. Two Coalfields, Two Labour Traditions2. State Ownership3. Power Politics4. From Heath to Thatcher5. Conflagration: The State Against the Miners6. Of Managers and Markets7. Thatcher's Redundant Entrepreneurs8. Sticking Together and Falling Apart9. Regeneration?10. 'Just Jobs'11. The Fabric of Decline12. Tragic Outcomes13. Monsters and Ghosts14. Building from the Past15. The People Speak OutConclusions and ReflectionsPostscriptAcknowledgementsNote on SourcesNotesIndex

Huw Beynon is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and author of Working for Ford, which has become a classic. Ray Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Durham and a decorated member of the Royal Geographical Society.

This brilliant analysis of the decline of British coal mining, and its social and political effects, is required reading for those who would speak for this working class.

• List of MapsList of Tables and FiguresIntroduction1. Two Coalfields, Two Labour Traditions2. State Ownership3. Power Politics4. From Heath to Thatcher5. Conflagration: The State Against the Miners6. Of Managers and Markets7. Thatcher's Redundant Entrepreneurs8. Sticking Together and Falling Apart9. Regeneration?10. 'Just Jobs'11. The Fabric of Decline12. Tragic Outcomes13. Monsters and Ghosts14. Building from the Past15. The People Speak OutConclusions and ReflectionsPostscriptAcknowledgementsNote on SourcesNotesIndex