Backbone of the Nation Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984 85 1st Edition by Robert Gildea ISBN 9780300274561 0300274564

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ISBN 10: 0300274564
ISBN 13: 9780300274561
Author: Robert Gildea
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history. A deep sense of pride existed within Britain’s mining communities who thought of themselves as the backbone of the nation’s economy. But they were vilified by Margaret Thatcher’s government and eventually broken: deprived of their jobs, their livelihoods, and in some cases, their lives.

In this groundbreaking new history, Robert Gildea interviews those miners and their families who fought to defend themselves. Exploring mining communities from South Wales to the Midlands, Yorkshire, County Durham, and Fife, Gildea shows how the miners and their families organized to protect themselves, and how a network of activists mobilized to support them.

Amid the recent wave of industrial action in the United Kingdom, Backbone of the Nation highlights anew the importance of labor organization—and intimately records the triumphs, losses, and resilience of these mining communities.

Backbone of the Nation Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984 85 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Stop–Start

2. Picketing Out

3. The Battle for the Ballot

4. Orgreave

5. ‘Close a Pit, Kill a Community’

6. ‘We are Women, We are Strong’

7. Connections

8. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

9. A State of Siege

10. Christmas

11. The Return to Work

12. The Fight Goes On

13. Ruin

14. Redemption

15. Shared Stories

16. Children of the Strike

Conclusion

Locations of Interviewees

Notes

Sources and Bibliography

Index

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