ABSTRACT
This chapter and the next form part of a study of industrial change in County Durham undertaken with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust in 1968–70. A copy of a 280-page report on this work, entitled Collectivities in Change: some sociological reflections on the decline of mining in the Durham coalfield, by M.I.A. Bulmer, comprising eight chapters on community studies, the regional and local background, the decline of mining and the growth of factory industry, the social role of the workingmen’s club and the relationship between industry and locality, is deposited at the Library of Durham University. Policy aspects of the pit closure discussed in this chapter are examined in ‘Mining Redundancy: a case study of the workings of the Redundancy Payments Act, 1965, in the Durham coalfield’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.2, No. 4, 1971, pp.3–21.
