Routledge Revivals: The Enemy Within (1986): Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984-5 (Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138214302 ISBN 13: 9781138214309

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners’ strike of 1984-5 was ‘Scargill’s Strike’. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures ― the lodge, the village and the home. The focus is essentially logical and gives particular attention to family economy, kin networks and intergenerational solidarity. At the same time it is concerned with the mentality of the strike ― its ruling fears and passions. The first-hand testimonies that comprise the book attest to the attachment to ‘traditional ways’ as well as the potency of the influences corroding them.

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Raphael Samuel, Barbara Bloomfield, Guy Bonas

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138214302
• ISBN 13: 9781138214309
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Samuel Raphael, Bloomfield Barbara, Boanas Guy