Local spaces of labour control or platforms for agency? The North East Durham Coalfield, 1820–1890

Martin, Hannah Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.12.016

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“…17 Nevertheless, as mines and steel mills might require technical and skilled workers in some industrial processes, their presence may have acted as a stimulus for the population to demand access to education. 18 Moreover, mine owners and industrial elites might have promoted education in order to have a pool of skilled workers, or as a tool to control potential social unrest (Martin 2021). 19 Additionally, as mining and industrial towns experienced important population growth, the arrival of more people meant that more education infrastructure, and, in turn, more education spending, was needed.…”

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The role of industrialisation in education expenditure: municipal budgets in Biscay, 1860-1910

Palacios-Mateo

2024

RHE / JILAEH

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This paper presents a unique database that explores how industrialisation affected municipalities' incomes, expenditures and education spending. Using the importance of the mines and steelworks in Biscay in northern Spain between 1860 and 1910 as indicators of industrialisation, the findings show that there was a positive relationship between these dimensions and towns' incomes, which was indirectly transmitted to municipalities' expenditures, showing that municipalities were able to benefit from industrialisation. However, the thriving mining and metallurgy sectors did not support an increase in education spending. The lack of short-term results from spending on education may have led town councils to divert the revenues of industrialisation into more urgent areas, or those that could deliver faster results.

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The role of industrialisation in education expenditure: municipal budgets in Biscay, 1860-1910

Palacios-Mateo

2024

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“…Some contributions to this strand mobilise notions of community landscapes (e.g. Martin, 2021). Third, research into intermediaries has shown how they condition workplaces in various industrial contexts (e.g.…”

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The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency

Coe

Jordhus‐Lier

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This article critically evaluates the burgeoning work on labour agency in human geography over the past decade. We review efforts to distinguish varied forms of labour agency and locate them in different social contexts. In so doing, we identify certain disjunctures in the cross-case conceptualisation of labour agency and propose a morphogenetic approach to structure-agency dynamics in the world of work. In turn, we then address the lack of explicit reflection on the geographies inherent to labour agency. Four temporal moments are highlighted as central to the spatialities of worker actions, as well as to their structural constraints and outcomes.

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Local spaces of labour control or platforms for agency? The North East Durham Coalfield, 1820–1890

Cited by 2 publications

References 26 publications

The role of industrialisation in education expenditure: municipal budgets in Biscay, 1860-1910

The role of industrialisation in education expenditure: municipal budgets in Biscay, 1860-1910

The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency

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