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The 1926 Miners' Lockout - Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield (Hardcover, New)
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The 1926 Miners' Lockout - Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British
twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the
general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one
million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten
adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound.
Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by
Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective
values and behavior, focusing particularly on the tensions between
identities based around class and occupation, and the rival
identities that could cut across the creation of a cohesive
community. Highlighting the continuing importance of differences
due to gender, age, religion, poverty, and individual hopes and
aspirations, she nevertheless finds that in 1926, despite such
differences, the Durham coalfield continued to display the
solidarity for which miners were famed.
In response, Barron argues that the very concept of the "mining
community" needs to be reassessed. Rather than consisting of an
homogeneous occupational identity, she suggests that the essence of
community lay in its ability to subsume and integrate other
categories of identity. A collective consciousness was further
grounded in a shared historical narrative that had to be
continually reinforced.
It was the strength of such local solidarities that enabled both an
exemplary regional response to the strike, and the ability to
conceptualize such action within the wider framework of the
national union. The 1926 Miners' Lockout provides crucial insights
into issues of collective identity and collective action,
illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation
within working-class communities and cultures.
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