Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Mining industry
|
Buy Now
Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,307
Discovery Miles 23 070
|
|
Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85 (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its
vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace
politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike began in
Scotland, with workers defending the moral economy of the
coalfields, and resisting pit closures and management attacks on
trade unionism. The book relates the strike to an analysis of
changing coalfield community and industrial structures from the
1960s to the 1980s. It challenges the stereotyped view that the
strike began in March 1984 as a confrontation between Arthur
Scargill, the miners' leader, and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative
government. Before this point, in fact, 50 per cent of Scottish
miners were already on strike or engaged in a significant pit-level
dispute with their managers, who were far more confrontational than
their counterparts in England and Wales. The book explores the key
features of the strike that followed in Scotland: the unusual
industrial politics; the strong initial pattern of general
solidarity; and then the emergence of varieties of pit-level
commitment. These were shaped by differential access to
community-level moral and material resources, including the
economic and cultural role of women, and pre-strike pit-level
economic performance. Against the trend elsewhere, notably in the
English Midlands, relatively good performance prior to 1984 was a
positive factor in building strike endurance in Scotland. The book
shows that the outcome of the strike was also distinctive in
Scotland, with an unusually high level of victimisation of
activists, and the acceleration of deindustrialisation
consolidating support for devolution, contributing to the
establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. -- .
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.