alt Hacker NewsAt the start of the last century the UK had a million people working in the coal mining industry. Now it is effectively zero.
That reduction happened over a long period but it wasn't without its problems. Even now there are old coal mining villages that have never really recovered economically.
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account42 • yesterday at 12:44 PM
> Even now there are old coal mining villages that have never really recovered economically.
Are villages the correct unit to look at there though? Do individuals from these villages now have worse opportunities than they had before?
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Maybe the village hasn't recovered but what about the descendants of the miners who now work service jobs in London?