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The history of High Valleyfield Colliery and the mining trade union in West Fife

McColl, Sharron2015
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This item was written by Dunfermline library assistant and Unison representative Sharron McColl, and it comprises her project for a Diploma in Contemporary Trade Unionism. The project studies the history of mining unions and labour relations from the late nineteenth century, and examines High Valleyfield Colliery in detail. She writes about the Valleyfield Colliery Disaster, giving a comprehensive description of the incident and its causes by using contemporary local and national newspaper reports, gravestone and memorial photographs, and information from the inquiry that followed the disaster.
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