Reform, Revolution and Direct Action Amongst British Miners

The Struggle for the Charter in 1919
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-29701-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ives, Martyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction (with Paul Blackledge)

PART ONE

1. Political Alternatives in the Labour Movement in 1919
2. The Miners’ Federation of Great Britain: Bureaucratic Reformists, Militant Miners and the Development of the Miners’ Charter
3. Fife and Lanarkshire
4. Nottinghamshire
5. South Wales
6. Selling Sankey

PART TWO

Introduction: A Background Sketch of the Summer’s Crisis
7. Perspectives on Nationalisation in the Period of Manoeuvre
8. A Second Wave of Unrest
9. Yorkshire
10. The Demise of Direct Action and the Triumph of Electoralism

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.