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Author Ives, Martyn, author

Title Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners : the struggle for the Charter in 1919 / by Martyn Ives
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 351 pages)
Series Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 123
Historical materialism book series ; 123
Contents Introduction / with Paul Blackledge -- Part One -- 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 -- Part Two -- 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 triumph of electoralism
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"--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 15, 2016)
Subject Miners' Federation of Great Britain -- History
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coal Industry 1919 -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coal Industry 1919 fast
Miners' Federation of Great Britain fast
Subject Coal miners -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Radicals -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Charters -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Coal mines and mining -- Government ownership -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
1900 - 1999.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Charters
Coal miners -- Political activity
Coal mines and mining -- Government ownership
Labor movement
Radicals
Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016034824
ISBN 9789004326002
9004326006