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Author : A. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Miners, Unions, and Politics written by A. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351917382
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–1947 written by Alan Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The near destruction of the coal industry and the NUM offers a timely vantage point from which to appraise their history. This book presents a collection of specially commissioned essays by leading authorities on miners' history, which challenge the stereotypical imagery of miners' solidarity and loyalty to the Labour Party. This book examines the politics of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the unique influences of syndicalism and communism within some of its constituent areas, and the uneven pace of the Labour Party's 'forward march' within the coalfields. Such national developments are then studied within their diverse regional contexts through a series of case studies which permits comparison between the major British coalfields. Finally, the book considers the attempts to overcome these regional diversities with the formation of the National Union of Mineworkers and the nationalisation of the mining industry.
Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Miners, Unions, and Politics, 1910-47 written by Alan Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the politics of the British Miner's Federation, the influences of syndicalism and communism, and the uneven pace of the Labour Party's progress within the coalfields. This work also discusses the formation of the NUM and the nationalization of the mining industry.
Author : Arthur McIvor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095839
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Miners' Lung written by Arthur McIvor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general. The authors examine the prevalent diseases, notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis, and evaluate the roles of key players such as the doctors, management and employers, the state and the trade unions. Throughout the book, the integration of oral testimony helps to elucidate the attitudes of workers and victims of disease, their 'machismo' work culture and socialisation to very high levels of risk on the job, as well as how and why ideas and health mentalities changed over time. This research, taken together with extensive archive material, provides a unique perspective on the nature of work, industrial relations, the meaning of masculinity in the workplace and the wider social impact of industrial disease, disability and death. The effects of contracting dust disease are shown to result invariably in seriously prescribed lifestyles and encroaching isolation. The book will appeal to those working on the history of medicine, industrial relations, social history and business history as well as labour history.
Author : John McIlroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429842996
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics written by John McIlroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979. Detailing political change in British politics from union strikes to Thatcherism in the late 1970s and the implications that had on trade unions and industrial politics.
Author : John Mcllroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429842961
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics written by John Mcllroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain. Detailing the transition of individuals who had survived in the war or had taken part in the war effort to going back a civilian life in 1945. Following the rise of the Labour party in Britain until 1964.
Author : Martyn Ives
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326006
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners written by Martyn Ives and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners, Martyn Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in labour history. His research into the astonishing coalfield militancy of 1919 reveals it was a watershed year on a par with 1926. Indeed the General Strike was in many ways merely its dim echo. Whilst historians have skated over the labour unrest of 1919, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mine-owners, government and trade union leaders alike. Led by revolutionaries, and infused with political radicalism, this mass movement offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism, based upon the organised industrial power of the working class.
Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351963678
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The NUM and British Politics written by Andrew Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its formation in 1944, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was one of the most powerful and important players on the British political and industrial stage. Whilst the nation relied upon coal for its electricity production, domestic heating and railway transportation, the miners and their unions would always play a central role in national politics with the ability to cause massive disruption to the nation, should they decide to strike, as they did in 1972 and 1974. However, as the country began to move towards other forms of energy, such as oil and gas, the power of the mineworkers correspondingly decreased, leaving the once mighty union to come to terms with a very different world by the early eighties. The NUM and British Politics makes use of union material and party and government archives as well as oral testimony, much of it highly confidential, to present the first overall account of the evolving nature of the tripartite relationship between the miners, the NUM and the state.
Author : Ben Curtis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326129
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The South Wales Miners written by Ben Curtis and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political history of the south Wales miners, their industry and society, in a tumultuous period of crisis and struggle.
Author : Brock Millman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135305064
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain written by Brock Millman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918, with a greater level in reserve.
Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144364
Total Pages : 4319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to British History written by David Loades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author : W. Hamish Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349275581
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book A History of British Trade Unionism 1700–1998 written by W. Hamish Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of `New Unionism' and `New Labour'.
Author : Andy Croll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878530
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies written by Andy Croll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. Adopting a regional approach that compares coalfield communities from five continents, this volume reflects coalfield experiences on a truly global scale. By looking at what made communities unique as well as what they shared in common, a much fuller understanding of the workplace, neighbourhood, family, identity and political organization is possible. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.
Author : Alan Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351208136
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Miners, 1874–1939 written by Alan Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the nineteenth century, their work situation was transformed in the twentieth as Scotland became the most intensively mechanised of the British coalfields. Grievances generated by this change led to strike rates in Scotland being up to ten and fifteen times higher than in the major English coalfields. Such militancy displayed considerable geographical variation however, and the translation of grievances into industrial conflict was mediated by variables rooted in the community as well as the pit. A central theme of this volume is to explore the differences between the four principal mining regions in Scotland through the detailed study of ten localities within them. This innovative, two-tiered comparison is used to analyse the competing loyalties of class, gender and ethnicity, to map the uneven terrain of popular protest and social disorder, and to challenge traditional stereotypes of ’a peaceable kingdom’. This historical sociology of the Scottish coalfields frames the analysis of trade unionism and politics which is developed in the companion volume to this book.
Author : John H. M. Laslett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068270
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Colliers Across the Sea written by John H. M. Laslett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the common ground and differences between two coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century.
Author : Elinor Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356355
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 written by Elinor Taylor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940, Elinor Taylor provides the first study of the relationship between the British novel and the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy endorsed by the Comintern in 1935. Through readings of novels by British Communists including Jack Lindsay, John Sommerfield, Lewis Jones and James Barke, Taylor shows that the realist novel of the left was a key site in which the politics of anti-fascist alliance were rehearsed. Maintaining a dialogue with theories of populism and with Georg Lukács’s vision of a revived literary realism ensuing from the Popular Front, this book at once illuminates the cultural formation of the Popular Front in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.
Author : David Howell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542113
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book MacDonald's Party written by David Howell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Labour Party became a major political force during the 1920s. It unexpectedly entered office as a minority government in 1924; five years later as the largest party in the Commons it took office again. For many the party's enhanced status was associated closely with its leader, Ramsay MacDonald. The years of optimism were destroyed by rising unemployment; in August 1931, the second Labour Government faced pressures for public expenditure cuts in the midst of a financial crisis. The Government collapsed, and MacDonald led a new administration composed of erstwhile opponents and a few old colleagues. Labour went into opposition; an early election reduced it to a parliamentary rump. This study offers a uniquely detailed analysis of Labour in the 1920s based on a wide variety of unpublished sources. The emphasis is on the variety of identities available within the party, and demonstrates how disputes over identity made a crucial contribution to the 1931 crisis. Thorough scholarship and distinctive interpretation combine to provide an important examination of a major episode in twentieth-century history.
