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First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the
official history of the British miners, which draws on original
sources, moving into the stormy period when the economic bargaining
of the million colliery employees with the mine owners became the
concern of Parliament and people. The great strike of 1921; the
stoppages of 1921 and 1926 (the latter opening with the General
Strike); and how successive administrations met those crises –
these form an historical matrix from which the present public
ownership inevitably emerged. The conflict of ideas and
personalities is shown as part of the struggles of these stormy
times. This book will be of interest to students of history,
sociology, economics and political science.
First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of
Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the
total manpower of their coalfield, responded to the call and
voluntarily enlisted in the British armed forces. The author
uncovers how the coalowners in the meantime took advantage of the
war emergency to deny the remaining miners a fair recompense for
their toil and of the bitter strife that followed. The book tells
the story of what led up to the General Strike and here the author
uses hitherto hidden sources of information. The picture is
revealed of what was a virtual conspiracy between the
Baldwin-Churchill Government and the mineowners, not only to cut
wages and lengthen hours, but to cripple British trade unionism.
When the miners held out through a seven-month lockout the efforts
of these highly placed conspirators recoiled on their own heads and
on the whole economy of British Empire. This book will be of
interest to students of history, labour studies, economics and
political science.
First published in 1967, South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru is a
vivid portrayal of contending personalities in the generation
before the first world war, often set forth in their own words.
Outstanding amongst them are the founder of the Labour Party., Keir
Hardie and the young Liberal politician Winston Churchill whose
successive ministerial duties brought him into close relation with
the miners of South Wales. Out of the almost insurrectionary
situation of 1910 in Glamorgan there has come a widespread belief
that Churchill was responsible for the shooting down of Welsh
miners and that Tonypandy in the Rhondda was once a scene of
massacre. In destroying this picturesque myth, Page Arnot uncovers
an array of facts that are stranger than this long-lived fiction
and also richer in their interplay of personalities. Here, soberly,
recorded, are the facts that could make a chronicle play with
dramatis personae ranging from Monarch and Minister to mineowners
and working miners who daily lives create the tensions of the time.
Their national characteristics and their exceptional conditions, at
home or in chapel, underground or on the surface, form one side of
the picture, of which the other is furnished by the entrenched
position of the associated coal owners. This book will be of
interest to students of history, economics and labour studies.
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.
First published in 1955, A History of the Scottish Miners recounts
the peculiar circumstances of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, and the laws that placed the miners under conditions
unique in Europe. Carrying onto the nineteenth century, the author
deals with the first trade unions, the period of Alexander McDonald
and Keir Hardie, ending in the great strike of 1894 and the
formation of the Scottish Miners' Federation, embracing eight
county associations. From 1894 onwards, Robert Smillie led the
Scots in good times and bad, up to the ordeal of the First World
War. The effect in Scotland of the great lockouts of 1921 and 1926,
with Robert Smillie no longer chairman of the British miners but
still the leader in Scotland, is set out in detail. Then after a
time of troubles, the Scots miners developed their organisations
during the war and, before its end, under new leaders, they
achieved a single union for Scotland. This book will be of interest
to students of history, sociology, economics and political science.
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