Challenging the de-industrialisation narrative: East Midlands textile workers 1980-2005

挑战去工业化叙事：东米德兰兹纺织工人 1980-2005

• 批准号: 2634044
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Nottingham Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2634044
• 关键词: Challenging; de; industrialisation; narrative; East

The second half of the 20th Century saw large scale changes in the East Midlands textileindustry, as the mergers and takeovers of the 1960s were unravelling. The proposedresearch will make a strong contribution to a currently under-developed body of work onthe textile workers of this era. The work of historians such as Stanley Chapman andBramwell Rudd concentrate mainly on the business strategies and economics of themergers and takeovers within the industry. Historians such as Tomlinson (2016), havewritten about the process of de-industrialisation, but largely in terms of male loss. Thepredominance of female workers in the textile industry complicates this view. This study ofthe East Midlands textile workers in the period 1980-2005 will use principles from the fieldsof material culture and memory studies to examine textile workers' testimonies. It will askif there is such a thing as collective identity, and if so, which narratives might have informedthis for the textile workers?Material culture, and its influence on memory is not an approach commonly taken byhistorians, therefore, by combining disciplines, the work will be methodologicallyinnovative. Adopting the strategy used by Layman (2009) and Arnold (2018), I will explorehow material culture (including photographs, film) might influence interviewees' practicesof remembrance, and assess how media representations of the textile industry from theperiod might play a part in the stories that are being told. I will examine the 55 oral historyrecordings collected as part of the 2019 Textile Tales project (held at NTU), and conductfurther in-depth interviews as follow-ups to existing recordings.Recorded in 2019/20, the Textile Tales oral histories give a unique, contemporaryperspective on the past, which cannot be gained from older recordings. The data wascollected from workers at all levels, on all aspects of their lives at work, and thereforeprovides a more personal insight than economic histories, asking questions that only theworkers' themselves can answer, such as where do they place the blame for the industry'srapid contraction? How did they view the industrial changes, and have they retained thatview? What did they do after working in the industry?I anticipate that the work will draw extensively on local archives, including the collections ofolder oral histories at East Midlands Oral History Archive and Nottingham Local StudiesLibrary, however, I intend to conduct a brief overview of other relevant archival collectionswithin the UK. The Media Archive Central England, Lincoln will be essential, as holders of theClothing The Nation collection and regional news archive footage (as used by Murray, 2013).There is also an opportunity to examine relevant recordings from the Courtauld MemoryProject, collected during a similar time period. During the 1960s, Courtaulds Textiles plcwere one of the main players in creating a textiles empire in the UK. In their acquisition ofsome of the famous hosiery and knitwear brands, many of the textile companies in the EastMidlands were brought under their control, until Courtaulds Textiles plc itself was takenover by the global Sara Lee Corporation in the early 2000s. The inclusion of these newrecordings in this research will address some of the gaps in the Textile Tales material (forinstance the presence of ethnic diversity), and provide a significant UK-wide comparison.The Courtauld project is still ongoing and some recordings are already accessible and havebeen transcribed.

20 世纪下半叶，随着 20 世纪 60 年代的兼并和收购的瓦解，东米德兰纺织业发生了大规模的变化。拟议的研究将为目前尚不完善的关于这个时代纺织工人的工作做出重大贡献。斯坦利·查普曼（Stanley Chapman）和布拉姆韦尔·拉德（Bramwell Rudd）等历史学家的工作主要集中在行业内合并和收购的商业战略和经济学上。汤姆林森（Tomlinson，2016）等历史学家曾写过关于去工业化过程的文章，但主要是从男性流失的角度来描述的。纺织行业女性工人的主导地位使这一观点变得更加复杂。这项针对 1980 年至 2005 年期间东米德兰兹纺织工人的研究将利用物质文化和记忆研究领域的原理来检验纺织工人的证词。它会问是否存在集体身份这样的东西，如果有，哪些叙述可能为纺织工人提供了信息？物质文化及其对记忆的影响不是历史学家通常采取的方法，因此，通过结合学科，工作将会在方法上有所创新。采用雷曼（Layman，2009）和阿诺德（Arnold，2018）使用的策略，我将探讨物质文化（包括照片、电影）如何影响受访者的纪念实践，并评估该时期纺织工业的媒体表现如何在这一过程中发挥作用。正在讲述的故事。我将研究2019年纺织故事项目（在南洋理工大学举行）收集的55个口述历史录音，并对现有录音进行进一步的深入采访。《纺织故事》口述历史记录于2019/20年，赋予其独特的视角。 ，对过去的当代视角，这是无法从旧录音中获得的。这些数据是从各级工人收集的，涉及他们工作生活的各个方面，因此提供了比经济历史更个人化的见解，提出了只有工人自己才能回答的问题，例如他们将行业的责任归咎于哪里。快速收缩？他们如何看待产业变革？他们是否保留了这种观点？他们在该行业工作后做了什么？我预计这项工作将广泛借鉴当地档案，包括东米德兰口述历史档案馆和诺丁汉地方研究图书馆的较早的口述历史收藏，但是，我打算对其他英国境内的相关档案馆藏。英格兰中部媒体档案馆，林肯将是至关重要的，因为它保存着 Clothing The Nation 收藏和地区新闻档案片段（默里使用，2013 年）。还有机会检查考陶德记忆项目的相关录音，这些录音是在类似的活动中收集的时间段。 20 世纪 60 年代，Courtaulds Textiles plc 是创建英国纺织帝国的主要参与者之一。在他们收购一些著名的袜类和针织品品牌时，东米德兰的许多纺织公司都被纳入他们的控制之下，直到2000年代初Courtaulds Textiles plc本身被全球性的Sara Lee Corporation收购。将这些新录音纳入本研究将解决《纺织故事》材料中的一些空白（例如种族多样性的存在），并提供全英国范围内的重要比较。考陶德项目仍在进行中，一些录音已经可以访问和已被转录。