Coal Not Dole
Author : Michael Kerstgens
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985
ISBN : 9783941825611
Author : Michael Kerstgens
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985
ISBN : 9783941825611
Author : COAL.
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
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Author : Tommy Healey Fund
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985
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Author : Guthrie Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985
ISBN : 9781840333299
In 1984 the National Coal Board announced a reduction in coal output that amounted to the loss of twenty pits and 20,000 jobs. The National Union of Mineworkers saw this as an attack on their members and called them out on strike. Twenty years on, this is the story of that bitter, year-long dispute is told through the memories of people from mining communities who took part in it.
Author : Mark Harvey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 178346366X
In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Margaret Thatcher's government aimed to smash the most militant section of the British working class. She wanted to usher in a new era of greater management control at work and pave the way for a radical refashioning of society in favour of neo-liberal objectives that three decades later have crippled the world economy.??Victory required draconian restrictions on picketing and the development of a militarised national police force that made widespread arrests as part of its criminalisation policy. The attacks on the miners also involved the use of the courts and anti-trade union laws, restrictions on welfare benefits, the secret financing by industrialists of working miners and the involvement of the security services. All of which was supported by a compliant mass media but resisted by the collective courage of miners and mining communities in which the role of Women against Pit Closures in combating poverty and starvation was heroic. Thus inspired by the struggle for jobs and communities an unparalleled movement of support groups right across Britain and in other parts of the world was born and helped bring about a situation where the miners long struggle came close on occasions to winning.??At the heart of the conflict was the Yorkshire region, where even at the end in March 1985, 83 per cent of 56,000 miners were still out on strike. The official Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) area photographer in 1984-85 was the late Martin Jenkinson and this book of his photographs _ some never previously seen before - serves as a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of Britain.??As featured in The Yorkshire Times, Sheffield Telegraph and NUJ News Leeds.
Author : Jim Coulter
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Coal Miners' Strike, Great Britain, 1984
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Author : United States. President's Commission on Coal
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Coal miners
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"At the conclusion of the 110-day coal miners' strike in March of 1978, President Carter appointed John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV to head up the first major federal study of coal mining in America in three decades. One of the main tasks of the President's Commission on Coal (PCC) was, in the words of Ben Franklin who covers coal for the New York Times, to "search out the roots of labor management bitterness that not only prolonged the record walkout but for decades has resulted in strikes every three years." To President Carter, who expressed a desire to place greater emphasis on domestically produced coal as an energy source, and to business interests, there were questions of great importance." -- review essay by Alan Banks, Appalachian Journal , SUMMER 1982, Vol. 9, No. 4 (SUMMER 1982), pp. 295-301.
Author : Bob Fine
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
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Collection of essays on the role the police in the 1984 coal miners` strike in the UK, and its implications for trade union rights - describes political behaviour and the centralization of policing decision making in order to enforce mine closure (plant shutdown); points out the use of violence by the police to counteract picketing; comments on the application of labour legislation and of archaic civil law; considers the economic implications for miners` families. References.
Author : Brian Elliot
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1845631471
There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in that it concentrates on the miner, his family and his work through a careful selection of illustrations. Although most of the images are photographic, and therefore relate to the latter part of the nineteenth to the closing years of twentieth century, use is also made of much earlier sources, from woodcuts and engravings to illustrations in contemporary journals and magazines. ??A good deal of the material has come from the author's own collection, accumulated over many years of research; and also from archive sources. The selection is wide ranging, covering the traditional coal mining regions of Britain, from Scotland and northern England, through the midland coalfields and to Wales, as well as images from smaller coalfields such as Cumbria and Somerset. ??Today, coal mining is a virtually a lost industry and the men, women and children involved in what was once Britain's most important economic but most dangerous activity deserve both recognition and celebration.
Author : Ekaterina Anokhina
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
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ISBN : 9783941825550