The Lifecycle of the Coal Mining Industry and the Miners’ Families: Mining Innovation and Women’s Work

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  • 石炭産業のライフサイクルと炭鉱労働者家族――労働過程の変容と女性就労――
  • 特集のねらい : 産業・地域から家族の何がみえるのか
  • トクシュウ ノ ネライ : サンギョウ ・ チイキ カラ カゾク ノ ナニ ガ ミエル ノ カ
  • セキタン サンギョウ ノ ライフサイクル ト タンコウ ロウドウシャ カゾク : ロウドウ カテイ ノ ヘンヨウ ト ジョセイ シュウロウ
  • Introduction: Exploring Family and Labour under Industrial and Regional Transformation

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<p>This paper introduces the process by which coal mining technology was transformed and the miners’ labour and their families’ lives changed. During the development stage of the industry, miners and their families aimed at maintaining and enriching their lives, actively engaging with company management through their work, the mining community, and the union. The characteristics of miners’ labour, which involved heavy labour underground and shift work by the week, directly influenced their families’ daily living hours. They had to make a priority of the reproduction of miners’ labour, so miners and wives divided their roles by gender. However, when the industry faced decline, it became difficult for them to continue their lifestyle. In the end, the miners’ lifestyle changed to that of manufacturing industry workers, who earned a fixed salary and had their own house.</p>

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