The Enemy within: pit villages and the miners' strike of 1984-5
Samuel, Raphael ; Bloomfield, Barbara ; Boanas, Guy
Routledge & Kegan Paul - London
1986
xxiii, 260 p.
strike ; lockout ; miner ; coal mining ; government attitude ; violence ; plant shutdown
Labour disputes
English
Photos;Index
0-7102-0888-X
13.06.6-68067
The miners' strike of 1984-5 was more than an industrial dispute: it was a social drama which engaged competing moralities, both in and outside the coalfields. The strike raised in dramatic form major issues haunting contemporary British society - law and order, representation and accountability, regional impoverishment, youth unemployment, the future of work itself - and offers a unique vantage point for inquiring into, and reflecting upon, the contradictory forces reshaping Britain today. ...é"
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