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The Borinage is an area in the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium. The provincial capital Mons is located in the east of the Borinage. In French the inhabitants are called ''Borains'', but there was a great sociological difference between Mons and the ''Borains'' of all the villages around Mons. Charles White wrote, when describing the Belgian revolution, "The Borains, like the dark spirits of the melo-drame, rose from their mines, and helter-skelter pushed upon the capital",〔Charles White, ''The Belgic revolution of 1830'', London, 1835, p. 308〕 but he was using this name for all the inhabitants in the Province of Hainaut, which is an error. ==Rise and fall of coal== "From the 18th century to 1850, the economy of thirty municipalities in the Borinage was founded on coal mining. Between 1822 and 1829, production more than doubled in that region i.e. from 602,000 to 1,260,000 tons. That was more than the total production of France and Germany at the time! The Borinage exported its coal mostly to France and Flanders."'' 〔Adriaan Linters, '' Architecture industrielle en Belgique, Industriële architectuur in België, Industria architecture in Belgium'', Pierre Mardaga, Liège, 1986, ISBN 2-87009-284-9〕 In 1957, out of 64,800 people recorded as being in employment in the Borinage, 23,000 worked in the coal industry. Only 7,000 people in services, although in Belgium as a whole, 49 percent of employment was in the tertiary sector.〔Alan S. Milward, ''The European rescue of the nation-state'', Routledge, London, 2000, p. 41 ISBN 0-415-21628-1〕 In the 1960s, because of the end of the collieries, Ladrière, Meynaud and Perin wrote that the Borinage died in the ideological and economical sense. 〔Ladrière, Meynaud, Perin, ''La décision politique en Belgique'', CRISP, Bruxelles, 1965, p. 132: French'' Le Borinage est mort économiquement et idéologiquement.''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Borinage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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