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The Miners in Crisis and War - A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards (Hardcover)
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The Miners in Crisis and War - A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1961, The Miners in Crisis and War: A History of
Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards tells the
story of two sharply contrasting periods, of world crisis and of
world war. The story begins with the Minders' Federation fallen
upon evil days, diminished in numbers, shorn of its former powers
of national wage negotiation, divided in counsel and almost whelmed
beneath the seismic waves of world economic crisis. Unemployment
prevailed, greater than at any time before. The sudden collapse of
the cabinet, the formation of the four-party coalition, and the
rout of the Labour Party in 1931 shattered these hopes. The climb
from the economic abyss of the early thirties is made against a
sombre background of the spread of fascism and the approach of war.
Then, during the war, the British coal industry and its workers
encounter a series of rapid changes, both for better and for worse.
The whole main purpose of their trade unions, to maintain and
improve the standard of life, is conditioned by the six-year war to
such an extent that all come to be merged in a single national
union a few months before victory. Thus, in circumstances utterly
unforeseen, the old Miners' Federation, now once more built up in
its numbers and in its powers comes to an end after an existence of
fifty-five years. This book will be of interest to students of
history, sociology, economics and political science.
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