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Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners : the struggle for the Charter in 1919 / by Martyn Ives.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ives, Martyn, author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 123.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 123
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--Political activity--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Coal miners.
- Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Radicals--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Radicals.
- Charters--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Charters.
- Coal mines and mining--Government ownership--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Labor movement--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Labor movement.
- Miners' Federation of Great Britain--History.
- Miners' Federation of Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coal Industry 1919--History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Political Alternatives in the Labour Movement in 1919
- The Miners’ Federation of Great Britain: Bureaucratic Reformists, Militant Miners and the Development of the Miners’ Charter
- Fife and Lanarkshire
- Nottinghamshire
- South Wales
- Selling Sankey
- Introduction: A Background Sketch of the Summer’s Crisis
- Perspectives on Nationalisation in the Period of Manoeuvre
- A Second Wave of Unrest
- Yorkshire
- The Demise of Direct Action and the Reconsolidation of Labour
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-32600-6
- OCLC:
- 954203962
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004326002 DOI
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