Marching to the fault line : the 1984 miners' strike and the death of industrial Britain
Francis Beckett
Bok · Engelsk · 2009
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| Utgitt | London : Constable , 2009
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| Omfang | XIII, 274 s., [4] pl. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | The 1984 miners' strike was a defining moment in modern history. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was determined to change the face of Britain and break the power of the unions. Her chance came when miners' leader Arthur Scargill called an all-out strike on 5 March over mine closures. In the next eleven months Britain was to come nearer to civil war than it had for hundreds of years, as violence and resentment erupted among the picket lines and on the street. Thatcher feared to the end that the government might fall. Instead the strike was broken and that defeat marked the end of a way of life for many working people, as Attlee's vision of a welfare state, trade unions and strong government was replaced by Thatcher's Britain. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of these extraordinary events, Francis Beckett and David Hencke offer the first full account of the strike and how it changed the course of modern British history. They have had unrivalled access to key government and union players and uncovered material that many would have preferred hidden, including 'dirty tricks', secret payments, and jaw-dropping incompetence, as well as revelations about leading figures on both sides of the struggle - Thatcher, Scargill, Neil Kinnock, Noman Tebbitt - and others who would later rise to prominence in New Labour. From Downing Street to the picket lines Beckett and Hencke give the compelling back-story to an event whose repercussions will continue to be felt for many decades
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| Emner | National Union of Mineworkers
Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985 Labor unions - History - Great Britain streiker gruvedrift industrialisering historie samfunn Vis mer... 1980-tallet
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| ISBN | 1-84529-614-1. - 978-1-84529-614-8
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