The 1926 Miners Lockout
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Author | : Hester Barron |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191572411 |
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound. Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective values and behaviour, focusing particularly on the tensions between identities based around class and occupation, and the rival identities that could cut across the creation of a cohesive community. Highlighting the continuing importance of differences due to gender, age, religion, poverty, and individual hopes and aspirations, she nevertheless finds that in 1926, despite such differences, the Durham coalfield continued to display the solidarity for which miners were famed. In response, Barron argues that the very concept of the 'mining community' needs to be reassessed. Rather than consisting of an homogeneous occupational identity, she suggests that the essence of community lay in its ability to subsume and integrate other categories of identity. A collective consciousness was further grounded in a shared historical narrative that had to be continually reinforced. It was the strength of such local solidarities that enabled both an exemplary regional response to the strike, and the ability to conceptualise such action within the wider framework of the national union. The 1926 Miners' Lockout provides crucial insights into issues of collective identity and collective action, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities and cultures.
Author | : John McIlroy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Strikes and lockouts |
ISBN | : 9780708321867 |
The ten-month national mining lock-out of 1926 was one of the most important industrial disputes of the 20th century. This volume of specifically commissioned essays re-examines this key moment in British social history.
Author | : Ralph Anstis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926 |
ISBN | : 9780953302840 |
Author | : Sue Bruley |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178316266X |
Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay. "The Women and Men of 1926" investigates the Lock-Out from the perspective of gender relations, offering a social history of the mining communities in south Wales during the Lock-Out. Sue Bruley aims to analyse how individual families and households coped with the Lock-Out and to assess how gender relations were affected, using hitherto unpublished oral testimony as well as other archive material. Individual chapters consider topics such as school canteens, miners' lodges, recreational activities, picketing and politics.
Author | : Sue Bruley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
ISBN | : 9780708324509 |
In The Women and Men of 1926 Sue Bruley recounts the social history of the mining communities in south Wales during the 1926 lockout. Relying on hitherto unpublished oral testimony as well as other archival material, Bruley investigates how households coped with the lockout and assesses the impact that it had on gender relations. Individual chapters consider topics such as school canteens, miners' lodges, recreational activities, picketing, and politics.
Author | : Hester Barron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199575045 |
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.
Author | : Keith Laybourn |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926 |
ISBN | : 9780719038655 |
Examines the reasons for the General Strike and its significance for British society, focusing on events such as "Black Friday" and on the constitutional issues raised. The book argues that the strike was inevitable but asserts that it was not the disaster that it is often presented as being.
Author | : John McIlroy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The seven-month British national mining lockout of 1926 was one of the most important European industrial disputes of the twentieth century. It not only came to symbolize the defeat of the labor movement in the interwar years, but it also cast a long shadow over industrial relations in the mining industry and epitomized the predicament of British miners in the early decades of the century. Industrial Politics draws on new methodological perspectives that have emerged in recent labor studies in order to comprehensively survey this event at the national, local, and regional levels, and makes a significant contribution to the social and political history of the industrial working class.
Author | : South Wales News |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Miners |
ISBN | : |