Strikes and Solidarity
Subtitle: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 18891966
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521894036
Subjects: British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Social history; Strikes; Western Europe - General; History - General History; History; History: American; British Isles; Europe - Great Britain - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History : Europe - Great Britain - General; Political Science : Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Great Brit; Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Great Britain--History
First sentence: The British coalminer's reputation for military, exemplified in the observations quoted above by Askwith, a leading and experienced industrial conciliator, Bulman, a colliery director, and Cole, a scholar and a champion of labour, endured into the 1990s, when the dramatic decline in the coal industry was accompanied by a spectacular fall in the number of working miners.