The Miners Strike
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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.
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.
The Miners Strike
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language : en
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The Miners Strike written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985 categories.
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.
Shafted
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Author : Granville Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Shafted written by Granville Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985 categories.
Shafted draws together a range of contributors who analyse media coverage during the strike. The book also looks at alternative media, photography, film and documentary programmes. The current controversy around 'clean coal' and the environment is also examined.
The Miner S Strike
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Author : Brian Elliot
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2010-07-05
The Miner S Strike written by Brian Elliot and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with History categories.
Facing probable redundancy in his mid-fifties, South Elmsall miner Arthur Wakefield, fought for jobs and communities throughout the great strike of 1984/85. He also kept a marvellous diary, recording his experiences, impressions and events in considerable detail. The diary is a unique personal day by day account of the most bitter industrial dispute of the 20th century. Armed with nothing more than determination and a camera, he by-passed countless blockades and in the early hours of the morning he would join his colleagues at picket lines at pits, ports, power stations and works in many parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire and the Midlands. He also attended many rallies and marches, and was a regular 'support the miners' collector in London. Arthur Wakefield was a key witness at the 'Battle of Orgreave', on 18 June 1984, which he describes as 'Monday, Bloody Monday', the 100th day of the strike. His descriptions of the 'Battle' contained here in this book have also helped produce an historical live re-enactment to be shown on Channel 4 in April.
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.
Digging Deeper
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Author : Huw Beynon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Digging Deeper written by Huw Beynon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985 categories.
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.
Miners On Strike
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Author : Andrew J. Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Miners On Strike written by Andrew J. Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
The miners' strike in Britain in 1984/85 was marked by internal division, in contrast to those of 1972 and 1974, which brought the miners substantial material gains. This book considers the outcomes of these strikes, and their implications for current cohesiveness in organized labour.