Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
	Towards the 1984–5 miners’ strike
	London and the solidarity campaign
	Outline
	Notes
1 Conceptualising cultures of solidarity
	Place and time
	Difference, deference, and mutuality
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 ‘We’ve always stood with anybody who wanted to fight’: Mutual solidarity in the long 1970s
	Something in the air
	On the picket line
	Pushing the boundaries
	Beyond strikes
	Memorialising the movement
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 ‘We’re all in Thatcher’s sinking ship’: Class and deindustrialisation
	Organised labour
	Deindustrialisation and unemployment
	Defending jobs after a recession
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 ‘Like little soviets’: Infrastructures of solidarity
	Infrastructures of solidarity
	Twinning and encounter
	The state (in and against)
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 ‘What it meant to us about equality’: Gender, race, and solidarity
	‘Some kind of feminist’
	‘A big learning curve’
	The coalfields and the carnival
	Broadwater Farm to the United States
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 Sexuality and solidarity: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
	Organising solidarity
	Networks of solidarity
	Defending communities
	To be cockney and queer
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 ‘Someone else’s dubious battle’: The limits of solidarity
	Violence
	Democracy
	Politics
	Communists
	Conclusion
	Notes
8 ‘The world doesn’t end’: After the miners’ strike
	Back to work
	Maintaining cultures of solidarity
	Second comings
	Making usable pasts
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
	Return of the repressed
	Notes
Bibliography
	Archives
	Interviews and witness seminars
	Newspapers and periodicals
	References
Index