The development of skilled work in the British coal mining industry, 1870-1985.

Penn, Roger and Simpson, Rob (1986) The development of skilled work in the British coal mining industry, 1870-1985. Industrial Relations Journal, 17 (4). pp. 339-349. ISSN 0019-8692

Abstract

Here the trajectory of manual work in the British coal mining industry since the late nineteenth century is examined in relation to five sociological models of development of modern skilled work. Each of the models is examined in the four main phases of the labour process in coal mining.