Backbone of the nation : mining communities and the great strike of 1984-85 /
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history. A deep sense of pride existed within Britain's mining communities who thought of themselves as the backbone of the nation's economy. But they were vilified by Margaret T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history. A deep sense of pride existed within Britain's mining communities who thought of themselves as the backbone of the nation's economy. But they were vilified by Margaret Thatcher's government and eventually broken, deprived of their jobs, their livelihoods and in some cases, their lives. In this history, Robert Gildea interviews those miners and their families who fought to defend themselves. Exploring mining communities from South Wales to the Midlands, Yorkshire, County Durham and Fife, Gildea shows how the miners and their families organized to protect themselves and how a network of activists mobilized to support them. |
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| Physical Description: | 496 pages, [8] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300266580 0300266588 |