Children of the Revolution - Experiences and Impact of the 1984/85 Miners Strike on Children and Young people.

1月29日，天空新闻报道称，南威尔士一个前采矿村的covid - 19死亡率在英国最高，当地全科医生将该病毒的影响比作“80年代煤矿关闭时……我担心山谷中的新一代年轻人会被抛在后面”（塞缪尔，天空新闻2021）。20世纪初，煤炭是英国工业综合体的核心，但到本世纪末，几乎没有煤矿存在（Perchard,2013）。在20世纪90年代早期关闭之后，这些后工业煤田社区仍然是英国最贫困的30% （Foden,2014）。在这些关闭之前，矿工们在1984/85年发动了一场激烈的长达一年的罢工，这通常被认为是重新定义英国政治、文化和社会景观的关键时刻（麦金太尔，2014）。虽然社会学研究和当代文化叙事已经探索了采矿社区中性别和阶级的复杂交集，但从未对罢工期间和关闭后儿童和年轻人的经历进行过具体的社会学研究（Perchard,2013）。这项研究将是对矿工罢工中年轻人经历的第一次社会学分析，与罢工期间的儿童参与者合作，从而对生活在高失业率和海洛因涌入的后工业环境中的长期影响产生新的和创新的见解（Holden,2019）。这项重要的研究将与即将到来的罢工40周年相吻合，在更广泛的范围内尤其及时。在国际上强调去工业化和covid - 19大流行的影响。

On 29th January Sky News reported a former mining village in South Wales had the highest rates of COVIDmortality in the UK, the local GP likened the impact of the virus to ''when the coal mines closed in the 80s...Ifear there will be another generation of young people in the valleys that will be left behind" (Samuel,SkyNews 2021.) The beginning of the twentieth century saw coal at the heart of Britain's industrial complexyet by the end of the century hardly any coal mines existed (Perchard,2013). Following the closures in theearly 1990's these post-industrial coalfield communities continue to be in the most deprived 30% in Britain(Foden,2014). Prior to these closures, miners had waged a bitterly contested year-long strike in 1984/85,often considered as a key moment in the redefinition of the political, cultural and social landscape of Britain(McIntyre, 2014).3Whilst sociological research and contemporary cultural narratives have explored the complex intersectionsof gender and class in mining communities, there has never been specific sociological research conductedon children and young people's experiences during the strike and in the aftermath of the closures(Perchard,2013).This research will be the first sociological analysis of young people's experiences in the miners' strike,collaborating with participants who were children during the strike, thus creating new and innovative insightson the long-term effects of living in a post-industrial landscape of high unemployment and an influx of heroin(Holden,2019) This essential research will coincide with the forthcoming 40th anniversary of the strike andis especially timely on a wider scale, highlighting the effects from deindustrialisation and the COVIDpandemic internationally.