Author: David Brandon
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399083988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support. With their families and some middle-class sympathizers, the miners and the labor and trade union movement found itself pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus of the state, the powerful mineowners backed by the Conservative Government and most of the media of the time in what was the sharpest form of class conflict short of political revolution. It had always said that the British didn't do general strikes. In 1926 they certainly did! 2026 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the General Strike and, under the very different economic, social and political conditions of post-industrial, post-Brexit Britain, it is worth revisiting and examining the complicated coming together of factors which were eventually to lead to those extraordinary days in May 1926 when the fate of the nation lay in the balance. The author examines the economic, social and political processes taking places from the mid-nineteenth century and argues that this major confrontation between labor and capital was probably inevitable. He examines particularly the symbiotic relationship between the coal miners and the railway workers and the troubled industrial relations in those industries. His informed and lucid account should interest students of modern British history, labor history and the fortunes of the railways in this period.
The General Strike May 1926
Author: Robert Page Arnot
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The General Strike of 1926
Author: Keith Laybourn
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719038655
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Examines the reasons for the General Strike and its significance for British society, focusing on events such as "Black Friday" and on the constitutional issues raised. The book argues that the strike was inevitable but asserts that it was not the disaster that it is often presented as being.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719038655
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Examines the reasons for the General Strike and its significance for British society, focusing on events such as "Black Friday" and on the constitutional issues raised. The book argues that the strike was inevitable but asserts that it was not the disaster that it is often presented as being.
The General Strike, 1926
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1926 General Strike
Author: Peter Taaffe
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ISBN: 9781870958332
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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ISBN: 9781870958332
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The General Strike, May 1926
Author: Robert Page Arnot
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Pages : 0
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The General Strike, May 1926
Author: Robert Page Arnot
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The General Strike 1926
Author: David Brandon
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399083988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support. With their families and some middle-class sympathizers, the miners and the labor and trade union movement found itself pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus of the state, the powerful mineowners backed by the Conservative Government and most of the media of the time in what was the sharpest form of class conflict short of political revolution. It had always said that the British didn't do general strikes. In 1926 they certainly did! 2026 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the General Strike and, under the very different economic, social and political conditions of post-industrial, post-Brexit Britain, it is worth revisiting and examining the complicated coming together of factors which were eventually to lead to those extraordinary days in May 1926 when the fate of the nation lay in the balance. The author examines the economic, social and political processes taking places from the mid-nineteenth century and argues that this major confrontation between labor and capital was probably inevitable. He examines particularly the symbiotic relationship between the coal miners and the railway workers and the troubled industrial relations in those industries. His informed and lucid account should interest students of modern British history, labor history and the fortunes of the railways in this period.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399083988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support. With their families and some middle-class sympathizers, the miners and the labor and trade union movement found itself pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus of the state, the powerful mineowners backed by the Conservative Government and most of the media of the time in what was the sharpest form of class conflict short of political revolution. It had always said that the British didn't do general strikes. In 1926 they certainly did! 2026 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the General Strike and, under the very different economic, social and political conditions of post-industrial, post-Brexit Britain, it is worth revisiting and examining the complicated coming together of factors which were eventually to lead to those extraordinary days in May 1926 when the fate of the nation lay in the balance. The author examines the economic, social and political processes taking places from the mid-nineteenth century and argues that this major confrontation between labor and capital was probably inevitable. He examines particularly the symbiotic relationship between the coal miners and the railway workers and the troubled industrial relations in those industries. His informed and lucid account should interest students of modern British history, labor history and the fortunes of the railways in this period.
General Strike, 1926
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The General Strike,may 1926
Author: Emile Burns
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Writing the 1926 General Strike
Author: Charles Ferrall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107100038
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike and sheds light on the relationship between modernist politics and literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107100038
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike and sheds light on the relationship between modernist politics and literature.