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Book Synopsis The 1984/85 Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire by : Jonathan Symcox
Download or read book The 1984/85 Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire written by Jonathan Symcox and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lowe, chairman of Clipstone Colliery's strike committee, was at the forefront of the fight for jobs of the twelve months' 1984/85 miners' strike at a time when most Nottinghamshire miners preferred to work. The now well known 'dirty war' fought by the Thatcher Government against the National Union of Mineworkers transformed him from a passive family man into a political animal. Lowe was witness to many disturbing events, recording his experiences and thoughts in a diary so that they would never be forgotten: read about a pensioner friend beaten at a police roadblock, a bleak but unifying Christmas, the slow trickle back to work; and finally the the dreaded day the strike ended - and the first harrowing weeks back at the coal face among people he despised. With the scars of the dispute still fresh, John Lowe reflected upon both local and national events to produce pieces of writing from the heart, illustrated via a huge collection of documentation and memorabilia. Although a tale of sorrow it is also a testament to the unquenchable spirit of men and women fighting for a just cause during the most significant industrial dispute in modern history.
Book Synopsis Look Back in Anger by : Harry Paterson
Download or read book Look Back in Anger written by Harry Paterson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scars left by the 1984/85 'Great Strike for Jobs' are still raw in Nottinghamshire, 30 years on. There, the majority of the National Union of Mineworkers did not support their union, working throughout the strike, later forming the breakaway Union of Democratic Miners. This book puts these events in context, giving a history of the coalfields through the 20th century and the first comprehensive overview of the strike year in Nottinghamshire.
Book Synopsis The 1984–1985 Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire by : Jonathan Symcox
Download or read book The 1984–1985 Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire written by Jonathan Symcox and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain’s year-long miners’ strike against the Thatcher administration is vividly recounted in this diary of one of its most vocal leaders. John Lowe was at the forefront of the fight for jobs during the miners strike of 1984-85. He led from the front, as the elected chairman of Clipstone Colliery’s strike committee in the county of Nottinghamshire. The dirty war fought by the Thatcher Government to defeat the National Union of Mineworkers transformed Lowe from passive family man into a dedicated activist. Witness to many disturbing events, he recorded his experiences in a diary that is presented here in full, along with photographs, correspondence, court documents, and other materials. Lowe tells of the initial scramble to organize; the London rally that police tried to turn into a riot; his arrest and fast-tracking through the court system; the legendary pensioner friend beaten at a police roadblock; the slow trickle back to work; the dreaded day the strike ended; and first harrowing weeks back at the coalface among people he despised. With the scars left by the dispute still fresh upon him, Lowe reflected on events at both the local and national level. This volume is also a testament to the unquenchable spirit of men and women with a just cause.
Download or read book Hearts and Minds written by Joan Witham and published by Canary Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nottinghamshire Miners, the Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 1984-85 Miners Strike by : David Amos
Download or read book The Nottinghamshire Miners, the Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 1984-85 Miners Strike written by David Amos and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the year-long 1984-85 Miners' Strike over a quarter of a century ago, the stance of the Nottinghamshire miners still causes intense debate. Because of the apparent parallels with 'Spencerism' and 1926 the question has often been asked, was the soul of strike breaking solely to be found in the Nottinghamshire coalfield? However, was the answer to the Nottinghamshire miners actions in 1984-85 to be found in events a lot nearer than 1926? What effect did the reaction to the events under the Labour Governments in the 1960's and 1970's make on the Nottinghamshire miners and influence their actions in the early 1980's? Was the 1984-85 crisis in the NUM simply a case of disagreement over internal procedural practices? This study shows the complexity of collective identity in the NUM. It is an interpretation of the Nottinghamshire tradition within the NUM and not their apartness from it. The Nottinghamshire miners were central to the controversy in the 1984-85 miners' strike: without a fully researched account of their role with reasons put forward for their actions, the whole debate cannot be properly contested. To that end this thesis will hopefully enhance that debate. Previously un-accessed evidence and first-hand knowledge from the strike in the Nottinghamshire coalfield are used to contribute to the understanding of a defining moment in British coalmining and labour history. Historically, Nottinghamshire's policies and traditions were those of the moderate right in the NUM, while studies on NUM politics have tended to look at views with a left- wing bias. A satisfactory understanding of the 1984-85 strike and the role of the Nottinghamshire miners is required in order to get a more balanced account which accumulated in the a split in the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) ranks and the formation of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM). The first part of the study looks at the main events from the five years that preceded the 1984-85 strike, however the main emphasis is on the events of the year long strike in the Nottinghamshire coalfield (8 March 1984 to 3 March 1985) and the subsequent post-strike constitutional crisis that led to the formation of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers in the autumn of 1985. The second part of the thesis looks in depth at the key areas of debate surrounding the 1984-85 miners' strike, namely the ballot issue and the Rule 41 Domino Strategy. Various theories are put forward as to why the failure to hold a national ballot was a fatal tactical error and why the subsequent Rule 41 'domino theory' failed so miserably in the Nottinghamshire coalfield. Events in the Nottinghamshire coalfield in 1984-85 centred on what the majority of Nottinghamshire miners considered as a misapplication of trade union democracy. The initial controversy surrounded the decision to run the strike without recourse to a national ballot under NUM Rule 43. Instead an area by area domino strategy under NUM Rule 41 was tried, with disastrous results. The theory behind the domino strategy was that traditional left-wing Areas of the NUM would start a rolling type of industrial action with other areas falling into line i.e. that is, like a row of dominos put on their end in a line, when one falls the rest should follow suite and fall. The strategy relied on the use of cohesion, the sole strategy being based on confrontational picketing and the sanctity of the picket line. It was here that the roots of the failure of the strike lay and from this the initial split occurred in the NUM ranks from which it proved impossible to recover. The eventual outcome, played out through a series of episodes throughout 1984 and 1985 was the formation of the 'breakaway' Union of Democratic Mineworkers. The thesis will show that the Nottinghamshire miners' reaction when the strike broke in March 1984 was a defence pact guarding traditional methods of dealing with internal union politics against what they saw as unconstitutional procedures. Historically their reaction in March 1984 was similar to that of the unofficial strikes in 1969 and 1970 which launched the rise of the left in the NUM during the 1970's. It will also argue that far from being the blacklegs of 'Spencerite mythology', the Nottinghamshire miners adhered to time honoured regional autonomy in 1984-85 in line with moderate traditions within the NUM. Despite reservations, in the past Nottinghamshire miners had shown unity in the NUM with the adoption of the National Power Loading Agreement (NPLA) in 1966, their participation in the national strikes of 1972 and 1974 and by adhering to the overtime ban throughout the duration of the 1984-85 dispute, from the start of the overtime ban in the autumn of 1983 to the end of the strike in early March 1985. The actions of the NUM NEC and the left of the NUM were instrumental to the outcome of the 1984-85 strike. In the absence of a national ballot the outcome was that confusion reigned and a strike that got off to a bad start went from one crisis to another, eventually resulting in a permanent split in union ranks. A key question, is did the left of the NUM, who essentially had control of the NEC, know there was a possibility of this mayhem happening from the start and in the event of it happening needed a convenient scapegoat for the failure of the strike? Here the Nottinghamshire miners fitted the bill nicely, they were the weak link in the national chain of solidarity and were stained for time immortal because of the events of 1926 and their links with 'Spencerism'. Additionally various myths about the Nottinghamshire coalfield's apparent immunity from the effects of rationalisation and the effects of 'perfect geology' have been hatched to enhance reasons why the majority of Nottinghamshire miners failed to support the 1984-85 strike. This thesis will supply evidence to show these theories are myths and will show that the Nottinghamshire miners' acted within their normal traditions and understood union procedures. Essentially 1984-85 was a challenge to the Nottinghamshire miners' deep routed tradition. The NUM's obstinate stance and failed strike strategy were key factors in causing the split in the union and the strike being lost. It speeded up the process of decline. The eventual outcome was a tragedy not only for the NUM but for the deep coalmining industry in Britain generally. It was as the title of Adeney and Lloyd's book suggested 'Loss without Limit'. 1 At the start of the 1984-85 strike just over 170 collieries existed, by the end of 2011 just 5 collieries remain in production as the end of a significant chapter of British labour history nears its end.
Book Synopsis The 1984/85 miners' strike by : Linda Bardill
Download or read book The 1984/85 miners' strike written by Linda Bardill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coal, Crisis, and Conflict by : Jonathan Winterton
Download or read book Coal, Crisis, and Conflict written by Jonathan Winterton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses conditions in the coal mining sector which precipitated the strike. Discusses the mobilisation, organisation and maintenance of the strike, the strike settlement and its aftermath.
Book Synopsis Women & the Miners' Strike Nottinghamshire 1984-85 by : Craig Michael Atkinson
Download or read book Women & the Miners' Strike Nottinghamshire 1984-85 written by Craig Michael Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nottinghamshire Coalfield and the British Miners' Strike 1984-85 by : W. John Morgan
Download or read book The Nottinghamshire Coalfield and the British Miners' Strike 1984-85 written by W. John Morgan and published by Continuing Education Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nottinghamshire Coal Field and the British Miners Strike, 1984-85 by : K. Coates
Download or read book Nottinghamshire Coal Field and the British Miners Strike, 1984-85 written by K. Coates and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century by : Jim Phillips
Download or read book Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century written by Jim Phillips and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal minerThroughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated. Key featuresExamines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfareAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations
Book Synopsis Yorkshire's Flying Pickets in the 1984–85 Miners' Strike by : Brian Elliott
Download or read book Yorkshire's Flying Pickets in the 1984–85 Miners' Strike written by Brian Elliott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Wilson's diary is an honest and action-packed account of what life was like for five young men on picket duty during the longest and most bitter industrial dispute in modern times: the 1984-85 miners' strike. Bruce and, younger brother Bob, along with mates Shaun, Darren and 'Captain' Bob crammed themselves into an old car or 'battlebus' and, despite police barriers and blockades, journeyed into Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and elsewhere in order to express their views and support their union in a country which they thought was free. We are able to experience at first-hand and day by day events, which were often frightening, occasionally humorous but never dull; and also gain insight into major conflicts at Orgreave, Brodsworth, Rossington and Maltby as well as at locations further afield. Towards the end of the strike our flying pickets found themselves on home ground, demonstrating at Silverwood and nearby collieries, including Cortonwood where many observers consider the great strike began. Any former striking miner will find the book compulsive reading and despite the passage of twenty years the journey will seem like yesterday. But there is a great deal for us all to appreciate from this remarkably frank and moving testimony.
Book Synopsis The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization by : Jörg Arnold
Download or read book The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization written by Jörg Arnold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries, miners are typically portrayed as proletarian traditionalists working in a dying industry. Taking this perspective, the 1984/85 miners' strike seems a desperate last stand against forces much bigger than the miners themselves -- not just the Thatcher government but the tide of historical change itself. In this ground-breaking study, Jörg Arnold challenges a declinist reading of the people working in one of Britain's most important energy industries. The study makes extensive use of previously inaccessible records to offer a new account of the British miner in the age of de-industrialisation. The book situates the miners in broader structures of feeling, and reconstructs the miners' sense of the past and the future. Arnold argues that Britain's miners went through a cyclical movement -- from loser to winner and back again -- as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century. The book reinserts the industry's 'new dawn' of the 1970s into the story of coal and shows that the miners wielded real power. The industry's reversal of fortunes, inscribed in Plan for Coal (1974), proved short-lived. It was significant all the same. Its significance, the book argues, did not lie in affecting the long-term trajectory of the coal industry. Rather, the 'new dawn' was important in raising the political and cultural stakes. The miners found themselves at the centre of sharply conflicting visions of the future at a critical juncture in Britain's history. The figure of the coal miner became invested with sharply contrasting characteristics: hero and villain, underdog and enemy, proletarian traditionalist and standard bearer of Socialist advance. The miners were no mere spectators in this process. They were agents, thought to be uniquely powerful by their numerous opponents, and half believing in this power themselves. The miners' special nature, however, jarred with the aspiration to lead an ordinary life, producing tensions that were most cruelly exposed in the year-long strike of 1984/1985.
Book Synopsis The Miner's Strike by : Brian Elliot
Download or read book The Miner's Strike written by Brian Elliot and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing probable redundancy in his mid-fifties, South Elmsall miner Arthur Wakefield, fought for jobs and communities throughout the great strike of 1984/85. He also kept a marvellous diary, recording his experiences, impressions and events in considerable detail. The diary is a unique personal day by day account of the most bitter industrial dispute of the 20th century. Armed with nothing more than determination and a camera, he by-passed countless blockades and in the early hours of the morning he would join his colleagues at picket lines at pits, ports, power stations and works in many parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire and the Midlands. He also attended many rallies and marches, and was a regular 'support the miners' collector in London. Arthur Wakefield was a key witness at the 'Battle of Orgreave', on 18 June 1984, which he describes as 'Monday, Bloody Monday', the 100th day of the strike. His descriptions of the 'Battle' contained here in this book have also helped produce an historical live re-enactment to be shown on Channel 4 in April.
Author :Dr Florence (Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History University College London) Publisher :Oxford University Press ISBN 13 :0192843095 Total Pages :298 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (928 download)
Book Synopsis Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by : Dr Florence (Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History University College London)
Download or read book Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 written by Dr Florence (Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century British History University College London) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national network of groups that some observers saw as an 'alternative welfare state', helping to keep the strike going for just under a year. This book is the first study of this national movement, illuminating its achievements, but also telling the less well-known story of arguments and divisions with men in the National Union of Mineworkers and feminists in the women's liberation movement. Many women in the movement, despite their activism, resolutely denied that they were 'political' at all, defining themselves as 'ordinary' women, housewives, mothers, and workers; and, despite some claims that women activists had been transformed for ever by their experiences, most of those involved felt they had been changed only in more subtle ways. Women and the Miners' Strike is also the first to look beyond the activists to study the experiences of the majority of women in mining families who did not get involved in activism. Some of these women supported the strike by going out to work themselves to keep their families going; others supported their menfolk with practical and emotional support in the home. A large number were ambivalent about the dispute, even though the experiences of women whose husbands or fathers worked through the strike, or returned to work early, have generally been almost entirely obscured within popular memory. This book therefore also demonstrates how some women whose husbands broke the strike refashioned concepts like democracy and community to justify their actions, and how some even formed their own support groups to aid other women in their communities who found themselves under fire for opposing the strike. Through examining the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the strike, the book sheds new light on working-class women's relationship to the 'political' and the 'ordinary', and demonstrates the ways in which gender roles, working-class lifestyles, and coalfield communities changed in Britain over the post-war period.
Book Synopsis Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984–85 by : Jim Phillips
Download or read book Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984–85 written by Jim Phillips and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the 1984-5 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, 50 per cent 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. These were shaped by differential access to community-level moral and material resources, including the economic and cultural role of women, and pre-strike pit-level economic performance. Against the trend elsewhere, notably in the English Midlands, relatively good performance prior to 1984 was a positive factor in building strike endurance in Scotland. The book shows that the outcome of the strike was also distinctive in Scotland, with an unusually high level of victimisation of activists, and the acceleration of deindustrialisation consolidating support for devolution, contributing to the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Book Synopsis Marching to the Fault Line by : David Hencke
Download or read book Marching to the Fault Line written by David Hencke and published by Constable. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners' strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984, Britain was an industrial nation, reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlee's vision of a welfare state. Most of the great industries were nationalised and the trade unions was one of the major forces in the land. After the strike, which ended with humiliating defeat in March 1985, Thatcher's Britain was born. In March 1984, the leader of the Miners' Union, Arthur Scargill, led his members out of the pits without a ballot to protest at planned pit closures; they would spend the next 13 months facing the utmost deprivations as they fought to keep their jobs. On picket lines the miners faced harassment and the police, which culminated in the violent Battle of Orgreave. Meanwhile Thatcher's government feared that Britain was on the verge of a civil war. It was a struggle of attrition that neither side could dare lose. Twenty five years after the strike, the debate is still controversial. Marching to the Faultline tells the full story of the strike from confidential cabinet meetings at Downing Street to backroom negotiations, and life on the picket line. The book draws on previously unseen sources from interviews with the major figures, private archives and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act to set the record straight.