Mining in the East Midlands 1550-1947

A.R. Griffin Special Lecturer in Industrial History and Industrial Relations in the University of Nottingham

Part 1: getting the coal - mining systems and roof support, draining the workings, ventilation and illumination, getting the coal to bank, underground haulage, conclusion; the coal owners - landowners and entrepreneurs, management, conclusion; the miners - tommy shops, beer and bonds, discipline, religion, recreation and entertainment, appendices; transport and marketing - roads, canals and railways, monopoly and competition; the emergence of a county miner's union - the first union in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfield (1844), the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Miners' Association (1863), conclusion. Part 2: the exploitation of the concealed coalfield 1850-1900 - transport and marketing, capital and enterprise, labour, conclusion, appendices; the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association - formation and consolidation - 1881-1892 - the constitution of the association, disputes, organization and leadership, conclusion; the 1893 lockout and its consequences - the lockout, the federated area conciliation board, the Leen valley, conclusion; the development of the Mansfield area 1890-1926 - capital and profits, labour, housing and welfare, wartime controls, after the war; the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association - its period of maturity and growth 1893-1920 - the movement of wage rates, organization and leadership, local disputes, eight-hour day and minimum wage agitations, political developments, break-up of the federated area, conclusion, appendices. Part 3: the uneasy peace 1919-1924 - the Sankey reports, the Datum Line strike, the 1921 lockout, the miners' Indian summer, conclusion; the 1926 lockout -causes and consequences - preliminary skirmishes, the Samuel Commission, the general strike, the course of the lockout, the breakaway, conclusion, appendix; the Nottinghamshire coalfield stagnates 1927-1939 - output restriction, capital and enterprise, labour, conclusion, appendix; the Second World War and after, 1939-1947 - production in wartime, labour in wartime, wages and profits in wartime, the nationalization issue, appendices; Spencerism - the origins of Spencerism, the development of the Spencer union, the end of the Spencer union, a new dispensation, conclusion.