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Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike (Paperback)
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Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike (Paperback)
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List price R529
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Discovery Miles 4 370
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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.
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