Jim Phillips

Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984-85 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike began in Scotland, with workers defending the moral economy of the coalfields, and resisting pit closures and management attacks on trade unionism. The book relates the strike to an analysis of changing coalfield community and industrial structures from the 1960s to the 1980s. It challenges the stereotyped view that the strike began in March 1984 as a confrontation between Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader, and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. Before this point, in fact, 50 per cent of Scottish miners were already on strike or engaged in a significant pit-level dispute with their managers, who were far more confrontational than their counterparts in England and Wales. The book explores the key features of the strike that followed in Scotland: the unusual industrial politics; the strong initial pattern of general solidarity; and then the emergence of varieties of pit-level commitment. These were shaped by differential access to community-level moral and material resources, including the economic and cultural role of women, and pre-strike pit-level economic performance. Against the trend elsewhere, notably in the English Midlands, relatively good performance prior to 1984 was a positive factor in building strike endurance in Scotland. The book shows that the outcome of the strike was also distinctive in Scotland, with an unusually high level of victimisation of activists, and the acceleration of deindustrialisation consolidating support for devolution, contributing to the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130600
• Artikelnr.: 54358595

Autorenporträt

Jim Phillips is an author, speaker and certified L.I.F.E. and business coach. For the better part of 30 years he has been an entrepreneur and business leader inspiring others to higher levels of achievement through his presentations throughout the United States and parts of Europe. His true passion is the exploration and application of spiritual law as it applies to prosperity and overall quality of life. One of Jim's gifts is his ability to help others understand and apply complex spiritual concepts to their personal life. At the age of thirteen Jim had an experience that confirmed to him he had a specific message to share about our connection to the Divine. This message was to be shared when the time was right, that time is now. Jim graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. He currently resides in Aldie, VA where he continues his writing, coaching, and speaking. www.prosperitybydesign.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking the 1984-5 Miners' Strike Part One: Origins and
Outbreak 1. Collieries, Communities and Coalfield Politics 2. Closures and
Workplace Conflict: the origins of the strike Part Two: The Strike 3. The
Scottish Industrial Politics of the Strike 4. Communities and
Colliery-level commitment 5. Ending and Aftermath 6. Legacy and Conclusion
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