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Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners
The Struggle for the Charter in 1919
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English
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2016
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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.
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.
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Martyn Ives, Ph.D (Econ) in the Department of Government, Manchester University (1994). He currently works in television, where he is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer.
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eBook published on:
September 7, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9789004326002
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354
eBook ISBN:
9789004326002
Keywords for this book
syndicalism; Marxism; industrial; unrest; rank and file; trade; union; bureaucracy; MFGB; Triple Alliance; British; labour; labor; history; socialist; leaders; revolutionaries; mass; movements; England; coalfields
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All interested in British labour history, and anyone concerned with the role of socialists, revolutionaries and trade union leaders in industrial mass movements.
