Stefan Berger is the Director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Chairman of the Foundation History of the Ruhr.Peter Alexander is the Director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

• ForewordStefan Berger and Peter AlexanderChapter 1:Mining History: Sub-Fields and AgendasStefan BergerChapter 2:Archaeology of mining in the pre-industrial age: the recognition and interpretation of ancient minesSimon TimberlakeChapter 3:Engineering changes: The cause and consequence of modern mining methods at Butte, Montana; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Broken Hill, New South WalesJeremy MouatChapter 4: A comparative account of deep-level gold mining in India and South Africa: Implications for Workers’ LivesDunbar MoodieChapter 5:Local moments in mining history. Some ideas on the relationship between foreign and native in Mexican silver miningAlma ParraChapter 6:Coal-mining, migration and ethnicity: a global historyAd KnotterChapter 7:Culture and classed identity in shaping unionisation on minesPeter AlexanderChapter 8:Feminising an ancient human endeavour: Gendered spaces in miningKuntala Lahiri-DuttChapter 9:Accidents and mining: The problem of the risk of explosion in industrial coal mining in global perspectiveMichael FarrenkopfChapter 10On Fatalities, Accidents and Accident Prevention in Coal Mines: Colliers’ Safety Discourse in Oral Testimony from the Ruhr in Germany and the Witbank Collieries in South AfricaPaul Stewart and Dagmar KiftChapter 11The state, labour conflicts and coal miningChris WrigleyChapter 12This Land is My Land: Global Indigenous Struggles and the Adivasi Resistance in Muthanga (Kerala, India)Pavithra NarayananChapter 13Black Gold and Environmental Enemy No. 1: Towards a Visual History of CoalStefan SiemerChapter 14Environmental History and Global Mining: Towards a Neo-Materialist ApproachTimothy J. LeCainChapter 15Mining HeritageStefan BergerIndex