The great labour unrest : rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield / Lewis H. Mates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mates, Lewis H., author.

Series:

Manchester Political Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durham Miners' Association.

Coal miners--Labor unions--England--Durham (County)--History.

Coal miners.

Industrial relations--Government policy--Great Britain--History.

Industrial relations.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : illustrations, map; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Great labor unrest

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union. Drawing widely on a vast and rich body of primary sources, the book reveals the debates that grassroots activists had during this the fascinating and turbulent 'Great Labour Unrest' period. It charts the contexts in which the socialists challenged the union's Liberal leaders from the late 1890s and considers the complex strikes in 1910 against the implementation of the Liberal government's miners' eight-hour day. It then goes on to analyse the emergence and development of a mass rank-and-file movement in the coalfield based around demands for a miners' minimum wage and, when this principle was won in March 1912, for an improved minimum wage. This book is of interest to academics, advanced students and lay people interested in political, social and economic history, political thought, economics, and industrial relations.

Contents:

1. Historiographical introduction

2. Structures, agents and the ILP's high tide

3. The Eight Hours Act and the Eight Hours Agreement in the Durham coalfield

4. 'Not exactly the millennium' : the minimum wage campaign

5. 'A capitalistic piece of legislation' : the launch of the Durham Forward Movement and the syndicalists' high tide?

6. 'Trade union questions were now political questions' : defeats, victories and new strategies

7. Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781784998035

1784998036

9781526109620

152610962X

9781784997595

1784997595

OCLC:

980791855