- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 351 pages)
- Summary
- "In Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners, Martyn Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in labour history. His research into the astonishing coalfield militancy of 1919 reveals it was a watershed year on a par with 1926. Indeed the General Strike was in many ways merely its dim echo. Whilst historians have skated over the labour unrest of 1919, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mine-owners, government and trade union leaders alike. Led by revolutionaries, and infused with political radicalism, this mass movement offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism, based upon the organised industrial power of the working class"--From publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 123
- Uniform Title
- Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction / with Paul Blackledge -- Part One -- Political alternatives in the labour movement in 1919 -- The Miners' Federation of Great Britain : bureaucratic reformists, militant miners and the development of the Miners' Charter -- Fife and Lanarkshire -- Nottinghamshire -- South Wales -- Selling Sankey -- Part Two -- Introduction: A background sketch of the summer's crisis -- Perspectives on nationalisation in the period of manoeuvre -- A second wave of unrest -- Yorkshire -- The demise of direct action and the triumph of electoralism.
- LCCN
- 2016026007
- OCLC
- ssj0001726165
- Author
Ives, Martyn.
- Title
Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners [electronic resource] : the struggle for the Charter in 1919 / by Martyn Ives.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Series
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 123
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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