The long-term decline of the British coal industry has had serious and lasting implications for miners, their families and communities. Out of the Ashes? Presents an authoritative review of the history and current state of this process. Drawing on their own research in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire mining communities, the authors chart the impact of pit closures, of their threat, on community life. The viability and working practices of the restructured industry are examined alongside case studies of successful and failed worker take-overs. The management of decline and attempts to stimulate the local economies affected are compared with very different strategies pursued in Germany, Belgium and Spain. The book concludes with an examination of the likely future of what remains of the industry and the prospects of the communities it once supported. Written in an accessible style,Out of the Ashes? Will engage all who have a professional or personal interest in the decline of the British coal mining industry, as well as academic and students of regional studies, sociology, psychology and the social sciences in general.

Out of the Ashes?: The Social Impact of Industrial Contraction and Regeneration on Britain's Mining Communities (Regions and Cities)

Business & Money

Waddington, David

Critcher, Chas

Dicks, Bella

Parry, David

Economics

Routledge

The DEVIL MAKES WORK

Politics & Social Sciences

Clarke, John

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain (Crisis Points, 4)

Sports & Outdoors

Red Globe Press

Moral Panics and the Media

Critcher (communications, Sheffield Hallam U., UK) explores the concept of "moral panic," an eruption of concern about social problems, evaluating the usefulness of moral panic models for understanding how politicians, the public, and pressure groups come to recognize apparently new threats to the social order. Two models of moral panics are identified and explained, then applied to various cases including AIDS, rave-ecstasy, "video nasties," child abuse, and pedophilia. Although written from a British perspective, the volume compares experiences across a range of countries and finds some common anxieties concerning threats to children. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Open University Press

This text brings together key writings on moral panics and contextualises these in the light of moral panic scholarship. It includes writings on the intellectual background of the subject as well as the differences in thinking between British and American moral panic scholarship.

Critical Readings: Moral Panics and the Media (Issues In Cultural And Media Studies)

Philosophy

First coined by Stanley Cohen in 1972, 'moral panic' is a key term in media studies, used to refer to sudden eruptions of indignant concern about social issues. An occurrence of moral panic is characterised by stylized and stereotypical representation by the mass media, and a tendency for those in power to claim the moral high ground and pronounce judgement. In this important book, Chas Critcher brings together essential readings on moral panics, which he contextualises in the light of moral panic scholarship through an editors introduction and concise section introductions.The first section discusses moral panic models, and includes contributions on the history and intellectual background of the concept. Differences in thinking between British and American moral panic scholarship are also examined. A second section features important case studies, including AIDS, Satanism, drugs, paedophilia and asylum seekers. This is followed by readings that look at themes such as the importance of language, rhetoric and discourse; the dynamics of media reporting and how it affects public opinion; and the idea of the risk society. Finally, readings critique and debate the use and relevance of moral panic models.Critical Readings: Moral Panics And The Media is a valuable resource for students and researchers in media studies, criminology and sociology.Essays by: David L. Altheide, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Joel Best, Theodore Chiricos, John Clarke, Stan Cohen, Chas Critcher, Mary deYoung, Julie Dickinson, Erich Goode, Johanna Habermeier, Stuart Hall, Sean P. Hier, Tony Jefferson, Philip Jenkins, Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Jennifer Kitzinger, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Angela McRobbie, Peter Meylakhs, Suzanne Ost, Bryan Roberts, Liza Schuster, Stephen Stockwell, Kenneth Thompson, Sarah L.Thornton, Sheldon Ungar, Simon Watney, Jeffrey Weeks, Michael Welch, Paul Williams.

Critical Readings: Moral Panics and the Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)

A topical study showing how and why seemingly trivial incidents act as flashpoints for widespread disturbances, by investigating the underlying causes. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in communication, politics, industrial relations, criminology, and urban studies.

Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder

Jones, Karen

Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)

Flashpoints (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)

Sociology

This book, first published in 1989, examines how a seemingly trivial incident can act as a flashpoint for wider disturbances. It investigates the underlying causes, the immediate context of the events, and the communication between police and crowd that takes place within them. The authors' findings are based on first-hand research into case studies of political demonstrations, community disorder and industrial picketing in South Yorkshire, UK over a five-year period. Wide-ranging in its approach, the book covers industrial relations, police-community relations, and questions of political representation and legal rights. The authors provide a novel theoretical analysis, drawing on both sociology and social psychology, which they apply to their own case studies and to other instances of disorder, from Grosvenor Square in 1968 to Wapping in 1986. They also consider the possible impact of new public order legislation, and the policy implications of their research.

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order

This special 35th anniversary edition contains the original, unchanged text that inspired a generation, alongside two new chapters that explore the book's continued significance for today's readers. The Preface provides a brief retrospective account of the book's original structure, the rich ethnographic, intellectual and theoretical work that informed it, and the historical context in which it appeared. In the new Afterword, each of the authors takes up a specific theme from the original book and interrogates it in the light of current crises, perspectives and contexts.

Roberts, Brian

Hall, Stuart

Jefferson, Tony

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