Author: Hester Barron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199575045
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.
The General Strike, May 1926
Author: Robert Page Arnot
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Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
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Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The 1926 Miners' Lockout
Author: Hester Barron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199575045
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199575045
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.
Strike for a Kingdom
Author: Menna Gallie
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A Very British Strike
Author: Anne Perkins
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a Socialist revolution. Yet in the ensuing nine days, far from working for the overthrow of the state, strikers as well as strike-breakers mobilised to save parliamentary democracy. Although the strike was perhaps the most dramatic peacetime event in twentieth-century Britain, affecting every inhabitant of every town of any size throughout the country, it was remarkable more for its discipline and control than for street battles and picket line violence. There were no deaths, and few injuries, while in one city, Plymouth, police and pickets played football together. Capitulation, when it came on 12 May, was almost as total as it was unexpected. A Very British Strike provides a fast-paced and authoritative account both of the events that led up to the strike and of its immediate aftermath. Anne Perkins draws on a wide variety of hitherto unpublished sources and affords readers a twenty-first-century lens through which to see the brief moment in the 1920s when the British state seemed as vulnerable to an alliance of external and internal threats as it sometimes seems today.
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a Socialist revolution. Yet in the ensuing nine days, far from working for the overthrow of the state, strikers as well as strike-breakers mobilised to save parliamentary democracy. Although the strike was perhaps the most dramatic peacetime event in twentieth-century Britain, affecting every inhabitant of every town of any size throughout the country, it was remarkable more for its discipline and control than for street battles and picket line violence. There were no deaths, and few injuries, while in one city, Plymouth, police and pickets played football together. Capitulation, when it came on 12 May, was almost as total as it was unexpected. A Very British Strike provides a fast-paced and authoritative account both of the events that led up to the strike and of its immediate aftermath. Anne Perkins draws on a wide variety of hitherto unpublished sources and affords readers a twenty-first-century lens through which to see the brief moment in the 1920s when the British state seemed as vulnerable to an alliance of external and internal threats as it sometimes seems today.
The Northern Expedition
Author: Donald A. Jordan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824880862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
The Chinese state of the 1920s was one of disunified parts, ruled by warlords too strong for civilians to oust and too weak to resist the demands and bribes of foreign powers. China's treaty ports were crucibles of change in which congregated the educated elite, exposed to modern ways, who felt the need for a national revolution to revitalize their country and to provide her with a new, more integrated political system. Nationwide in their origins and representing varying political ideologies, this elite formed a loose coalition to achieve a common goal. In 1926 the first step in the military campaign known as the Northern Expedition was launched to conquer the armed forces of the warlords, the greatest obstacle in the path toward reunification of China. Until now, historians have ascribed much of the success of the Northern Expedition, culminating in the capture of Peking, to the Communist-led mass organizations who were reported to have won over the populace in the territory ahead of the National Revolutionary Army. Dr. Jordan's research, especially in Communist materials, has uncovered evidence indicating that, although the mass organizations did aid the army at particular points in 1925 and 1926, there had also been a side to the mass movement that was disruptive to the goal of reunification. Of additional import, some of the key participants in the later governments of Taiwan and Peking—among them Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and Lin Piao—received their basic political training in the National Revolution.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824880862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
The Chinese state of the 1920s was one of disunified parts, ruled by warlords too strong for civilians to oust and too weak to resist the demands and bribes of foreign powers. China's treaty ports were crucibles of change in which congregated the educated elite, exposed to modern ways, who felt the need for a national revolution to revitalize their country and to provide her with a new, more integrated political system. Nationwide in their origins and representing varying political ideologies, this elite formed a loose coalition to achieve a common goal. In 1926 the first step in the military campaign known as the Northern Expedition was launched to conquer the armed forces of the warlords, the greatest obstacle in the path toward reunification of China. Until now, historians have ascribed much of the success of the Northern Expedition, culminating in the capture of Peking, to the Communist-led mass organizations who were reported to have won over the populace in the territory ahead of the National Revolutionary Army. Dr. Jordan's research, especially in Communist materials, has uncovered evidence indicating that, although the mass organizations did aid the army at particular points in 1925 and 1926, there had also been a side to the mass movement that was disruptive to the goal of reunification. Of additional import, some of the key participants in the later governments of Taiwan and Peking—among them Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and Lin Piao—received their basic political training in the National Revolution.
The General Strike of 1926
Author: R. A. Florey
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The River War
Author: Winston Churchill
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Category : Fashoda Crisis, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Fashoda Crisis, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Marxism and Trade Union Struggle
Author: Tony Cliff
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Marxism and the Trade Union Struggle: The General,Strike of 1926
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Marxism and the Trade Union Struggle: The General,Strike of 1926
The General Strike, 1926
Author:
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Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Strike Across the Empire
Author: Baruch Hirson
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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