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Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

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In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.
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While other historians have skated over the labor unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general strike of 1926, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mine-owners, the government, and trade union leaders. Led by revolutionaries, this mass movement also offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism.
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Price: $30.00
Pages: 368
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date: 02 January 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781608468195
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, European history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social classes, Social and cultural history, Political ideologies and movements

“This is a very long overdue book. It reveals a period of the most extraordinary militancy by the largest group of organised workers in Britain, a phenomenon which has largely been ignored. In 1919, as a revolutionary wave swept Europe, mass strikes gripped British coalfields waged against the coal owners, the government and the miners’ own national and regional union officials.” –Socialist Review

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.
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