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After The Miners Strike
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Author : Paul Farmer
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2023-09-27
After The Miners Strike written by Paul Farmer and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-27 with Art categories.
In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change. The reader is plunged into the national miners’ strike and the collapse of Cornish tin mining, the impact of Thatcherism and ‘Reaganomics’, and the experience of touring Germany on the brink of reunification, alongside the influence on A39 of writers Bertolt Brecht, John McGrath and Keith Johnstone. Farmer, a former bus driver turned artistic director, details the theatre group’s inception and development as it fought to break down social barriers, attract audiences, and survive with little more than a beaten-up Renault 12, a photocopier and two second-hand stage lights at its disposal: the book traces the progress from these raw materials to the development of an integrated community theatre practice for Cornwall. Farmer’s candour and humour enliven this unique insight into 1980s theatre and politics. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in theatre history, life in Cornwall, and the relationship between performance and society during a turbulent era.
Marching To The Fault Line
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Author : David Hencke
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Marching To The Fault Line written by David Hencke and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with History categories.
A controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners' strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984, Britain was an industrial nation, reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlee's vision of a welfare state. Most of the great industries were nationalised and the trade unions was one of the major forces in the land. After the strike, which ended with humiliating defeat in March 1985, Thatcher's Britain was born. In March 1984, the leader of the Miners' Union, Arthur Scargill, led his members out of the pits without a ballot to protest at planned pit closures; they would spend the next 13 months facing the utmost deprivations as they fought to keep their jobs. On picket lines the miners faced harassment and the police, which culminated in the violent Battle of Orgreave. Meanwhile Thatcher's government feared that Britain was on the verge of a civil war. It was a struggle of attrition that neither side could dare lose. Twenty five years after the strike, the debate is still controversial. Marching to the Faultline tells the full story of the strike from confidential cabinet meetings at Downing Street to backroom negotiations, and life on the picket line. The book draws on previously unseen sources from interviews with the major figures, private archives and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act to set the record straight.
Strike
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Author : Peter Wilsher
language : en
Publisher: A. Deutsch
Release Date : 1985
Strike written by Peter Wilsher and has been published by A. Deutsch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Miners Strike 1984 5
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Author : Martin Adeney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-05
The Miners Strike 1984 5 written by Martin Adeney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-05 with Political Science categories.
This book, first published in 1986, examines the miners’ strike of 1984-5 – an event that formed the decisive break with a forty-year-old British tradition of political and industrial compromise. The stakes for the main parties were so high that the price each was willing to pay, the loss each was willing to sustain, exceeded anything seen in an industrial dispute in half a century. This book examines and assesses the strike’s full implications, and puts it into its historical and political context.
After The Miners Strike
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Author : Paul Farmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09-27
After The Miners Strike written by Paul Farmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-27 with categories.
In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39's creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change. The reader is plunged into the national miners' strike and the collapse of Cornish tin mining, the impact of Thatcherism and 'Reaganomics', and the experience of touring Germany on the brink of reunification, alongside the influence on A39 of writers Bertolt Brecht, John McGrath and Keith Johnstone. Farmer, a former bus driver turned artistic director, details the theatre group's inception and development as it fought to break down social barriers, attract audiences, and survive with little more than a beaten-up Renault 12, a photocopier and two second-hand stage lights at its disposal: the book traces the progress from these raw materials to the development of an integrated community theatre practice for Cornwall. Farmer's candour and humour enliven this unique insight into 1980s theatre and politics. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in theatre history, life in Cornwall, and the relationship between performance and society during a turbulent era.
The Miners Strike
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Author : Mark Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-03-05
The Miners Strike written by Mark Harvey and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with History categories.
In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Margaret Thatcher's government aimed to smash the most militant section of the British working class. She wanted to usher in a new era of greater management control at work and pave the way for a radical refashioning of society in favour of neo-liberal objectives that three decades later have crippled the world economy.??Victory required draconian restrictions on picketing and the development of a militarised national police force that made widespread arrests as part of its criminalisation policy. The attacks on the miners also involved the use of the courts and anti-trade union laws, restrictions on welfare benefits, the secret financing by industrialists of working miners and the involvement of the security services. All of which was supported by a compliant mass media but resisted by the collective courage of miners and mining communities in which the role of Women against Pit Closures in combating poverty and starvation was heroic. Thus inspired by the struggle for jobs and communities an unparalleled movement of support groups right across Britain and in other parts of the world was born and helped bring about a situation where the miners long struggle came close on occasions to winning.??At the heart of the conflict was the Yorkshire region, where even at the end in March 1985, 83 per cent of 56,000 miners were still out on strike. The official Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) area photographer in 1984-85 was the late Martin Jenkinson and this book of his photographs _ some never previously seen before - serves as a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of Britain.??As featured in The Yorkshire Times, Sheffield Telegraph and NUJ News Leeds.
After The Miners Strike
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Author : Paul Farmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
After The Miners Strike written by Paul Farmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
The Dirty Thirty
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Author : David Bell
language : en
Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
Release Date : 2009
The Dirty Thirty written by David Bell and has been published by Five Leaves Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985 categories.
"The miner's strike came to be called the "Great Strike", with good reason. It was the largest, longest, trade union struggle in Britain, and the most far reaching in its consequences since the 1926 General Strike. For a year 170,000 miners, plus the women in the mining communities, battled against everything the government and the police threw at them." "Only 30 miners out of 2,500 from Leicestershire coal-field struck against the pit closure programme. They became renowned as The Dirty Thirty and travelled the world for the strike fund selling badges, mugs and plates, making speeches and supporting the other striking miner." "David Bell has interviewed many of the members of the Dirty Thirty and the women's support group to find out why they struck, and why they held out for so long. Published to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1984-85 Miner's Strike, this is the story of the miners and their wives and families' courage, humour and an unbreakable will to win" --Book Jacket.
Policing The Miners Strike
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Author : Bob Fine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Policing The Miners Strike written by Bob Fine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Political Science categories.
Collection of essays on the role the police in the 1984 coal miners` strike in the UK, and its implications for trade union rights - describes political behaviour and the centralization of policing decision making in order to enforce mine closure (plant shutdown); points out the use of violence by the police to counteract picketing; comments on the application of labour legislation and of archaic civil law; considers the economic implications for miners` families. References.
Making Cultures Of Solidarity
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Author : Diarmaid Kelliher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-10
Making Cultures Of Solidarity written by Diarmaid Kelliher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-10 with Political Science categories.
This book combines radical history, critical geography, and political theory in an innovative history of the solidarity campaign in London during the 1984-5 miners’ strike. Thousands of people collected food and money, joined picket lines and demonstrations, organised meetings, travelled to mining areas, and hosted coalfield activists in their homes during the strike. The support campaign encompassed longstanding elements of the British labour movement as well as autonomously organised Black, lesbian and gay, and feminist support groups. This book shows how the solidarity of 1984-5 was rooted in the development of mutual relationships of support between the coalfields and the capital since the late 1960s. It argues that a culture of solidarity was developed through industrial and political struggles that brought together diverse activists from mining communities and London. The book also takes the story forward, exploring the aftermath of the miners’ strike and the complex legacies of the support movement up to the present day. This rich history provides a compelling example of how solidarity can cross geographical and social boundaries. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in left-wing politics and history.