Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history. It highlights the role of minersin formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that helped create the conditions for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The author also uses the experiences of the miners to explore working class wellbeing more broadly throughout the prolonged andpoliticised period of deindustrialisation that culminated in the Thatcherite assault of the 1980s. | Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century by Jim Phillips, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters