Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry - Hardcover

Krieger, Professor Joel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861047427 ISBN 13: 9780861047420

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1984

Synopsis

The miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974 restored to the miners and their unions a key position within the British labour movement. The book is a study of a most important factor in the renewed unity, the National Power Loading Agreement, which imposed a day wage structure on the miners in 1966. A detailed analysis of the ways in which earlier work conventions, wage structures, and social relations affected the agreement, and reviews its consequences. Case studies of the Durham and Nottingham collieries show the unique character of contemporary mining (1984) and the problems of centralized bureaucratic management. The author shows how miners were able to subvert management's attempt to impose measured day work in the industry and to use the loading agreement to their advantage.

About this title

About the Author:

Joel Krieger is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Decline (Oxford University Press, 1986), British Politics in the Global Age (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0861047427
• ISBN 13: 9780861047420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322