The 1926 Miners' Lockout : Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield.
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2009.
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| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound. Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective values and behaviour, focusing particularly on the tensions between identities based around class and occupation, and the rival identities that could cut. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (331 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191572418 0191572411 9780199575046 0199575045 |