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Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners : the struggle for the Charter in 1919
- Title
- Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners : the struggle for the Charter in 1919 / by Martyn Ives.
- Author
- Ives, Martyn
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- x, 351 pages; 24 cm.
- 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"--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 123
- Subject
- Miners' Federation of Great Britain > History
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coal Industry 1919 > History
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coal Industry 1919
- Miners' Federation of Great Britain
- 1900-1999
- Coal miners > Political activity > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Radicals > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Charters > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Coal mines and mining > Government ownership > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Labor movement > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Charters
- Coal miners > Political activity
- Coal mines and mining > Government ownership
- Labor movement
- Radicals
- Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9789004297012
- 9004297014
- 9789004326002 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016026007
- OCLC
- ocn950430617
- 950430617
- SCSB-8872838
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library