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May 25, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Making sense of mining history

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HCHuman Sciences Research Council

Key Points

  • The book aims to explore diverse elements of mining history from a global perspective.
  • Gathered contributions from international experts in mining history
  • Examined various aspects including archaeology, technologies, migration, and environmental impacts
  • Provided a comprehensive counterbalance to regional and national studies.
  • Presented insights into mining life and industrial relations
  • Highlighted the role of gender and environmental factors in mining
  • Explored mining accidents and their visual representations.

Abstract

This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.

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Human Sciences Research Council (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a13e8d20e02ee3982d33627https://doi.org/10.14749/32379027
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