The Discharge of Five-Thousand Coal Miners and Their Life-Course Transitions

我们的研究对1971年因一家煤矿公司倒闭而被解雇的前煤矿工人进行了跟踪调查。这家公司在关闭业务后，将其持有的最多文件捐赠给了当地一所大学。因此，我们的研究项目采用了两种策略来实现我们的研究目的。一种策略旨在阐明因关闭公司而失去工作的前煤矿工人是如何组织他们后来的人生历程的。在此基础上，共有4700人因公司倒闭而失业，这是我们的研究对象。另一种策略是将公司留下的文件尽可能地转化为档案数据，并对数据进行分析。为了执行第一个策略，我们必须确认4700人的受试者的当前位置。不幸的是，在他们失业后大约30年过去了。我们用各种方法确认了几乎所有受试者的当前地址。目前，完成面谈的前煤矿工人人数已超过1000人。另一方面，我们将已经延伸到几千个点的文档转换成档案数据。部分数据有助于追查前煤矿工人的当前地址。现在，我们正在将通过访谈收集的定量数据与档案数据集进行整合。此外，我们的主页还展示了20世纪60年代最新的煤矿技术照片，以及煤矿工人及其家人的照片。现在我们开始制作一本关于《煤矿工业的终结和前煤矿工人的生活》的文集。

Our research carried out a follow-up survey of former coal mine workers who were discharged by the shutdown of a coal mine company in 1971. This company donated the most documents which it had held to a local university after having closed the business. Therefore, our research project adopted two strategies for our research purpose. One strategy aimed at elucidating how the former coal mine workers who lost job by closing the company organized their later life courses. On this account 4,700 totals that lost a job due to the shutdown of the company constitute our study subjects.Another strategy is for us to convert the documents which the company left into the archival data as far as possible and to analyze the data. To carry out the first strategy, we had to confirm the current location of our subjects of 4700 persons. Unfortunately, about 30 years passed after their losing job. We confirmed the current addresses of almost of our subjects with various methods. The number of the former coal mine workers that completed the face-to-face interviews has surpassed 1,000 people at present. On the other hand, we converted the documents which already extended to thousands of points into archival data. One part of the data contributed to chase the current addresses of former coal mine workers. Now we are carrying out the integration between quantitative data that were collected through interviews with subjects, and the archival data set.In addition, our home page displays the pictures of the latest coal pit technology in 1960s, and photographs of the coal pit workers and their families. Now we start making of an article collection about "The end of Coal Mine Industry and the Life of Former Coal Mine Workers".