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Reform, revolution and direct action amongst British miners : the struggle for the Charter in 1919 /

"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 Strik...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ives, Martyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; 123.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.