Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners
ISBN: 9789004326002
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
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Subjects: Jewish magic.; Jewish philosophy.; Rabbinical literature;

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.


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