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Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85 (Paperback)
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Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85 (Paperback)
Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies
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This book, available at last in paperback, analyses the 1984-85
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, fifty percent 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. -- .
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