Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners : : the struggle for the Charter in 1919 / / by Martyn Ives.
In Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners , Martyn Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in labour history. His research into the astonishing coalfield militancy of 1919 reveals it was a watershed year on a par with 1926. Indeed the General Strike was...
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| Superior document: | Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 123 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
Volume 123. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Political Alternatives in the Labour Movement in 1919
- The Miners’ Federation of Great Britain: Bureaucratic Reformists, Militant Miners and the Development of the Miners’ Charter
- Fife and Lanarkshire
- Nottinghamshire
- South Wales
- Selling Sankey
- Introduction: A Background Sketch of the Summer’s Crisis
- Perspectives on Nationalisation in the Period of Manoeuvre
- A Second Wave of Unrest
- Yorkshire
- The Demise of Direct Action and the Reconsolidation of Labour
- Bibliography
- Index.