Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 198485 by Jim Philli

Description: Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 198485 by Jim Phillips This book analyses the 1984-5 miners strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Thatchers 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. -- . Flap 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 Thatchers 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. Author Biography Jim Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow Table of Contents Introduction: Rethinking the 1984-5 Miners StrikePart One: Origins and Outbreak1. Collieries, Communities and Coalfield Politics2. Closures and Workplace Conflict: the origins of the strikePart Two: The Strike3. The Scottish Industrial Politics of the Strike4. Communities and Colliery-level commitment5. Ending and Aftermath6. Legacy and ConclusionBibliography Review It deserves to be read by all those interested in Scotlands recent social history and contemporary political culture. -- . Long Description 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 Thatchers 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. -- . Review Quote It deserves to be read by all those interested in Scotlands recent social history and contemporary political culture. Description for Sales People - Focuses on colliery- and community-level factors in shaping and sustaining the strike, which tends to be understood in overly narrow high political terms.- Examines Scottish developments, which were central to the outbreak and longevity of the strike against closures.- Demonstrates that the strike was a popular and socially-embedded phenomenon, with limited connection to the Scargill versus Thatcher dispute of historical legend and much political literature.- Provides immediate and highly engaging history from below perspectives on society and politics in the 1980s, using interviews with strike participants.- A major re-evaluation of the 1984-5 Miners Strike, which was a central event in Britains recent economic, industrial and political history, and the first book to show the pivotal and distinctive nature of the strike in Scotland. Details ISBN0719086329 Author Jim Phillips Short Title COLLIERIES COMMUNITIES & THE M Publisher Manchester University Press Series Critical Labour Movement Studies Language English ISBN-10 0719086329 ISBN-13 9780719086328 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2012 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 331.89282233409411 Illustrations Yes Publication Date 2012-11-01 UK Release Date 2012-11-01 NZ Release Date 2012-11-01 Pages 208 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2012-10-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:128104116;

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