Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
list of figures and tables
Preface
list of abbreviations
1 Interpreting coalfield conflict: focus and formulations
	Mining strikes and \'militant miners\': contemporary perceptions and empirical expositions
	Theoretical orientations to mining strikes
	Methods, sources and schema
2 Tradition and modernity: the mining industry 1889-1940
	Structures of colliery scale and ownership
	Structures and strategies of labour management
3 Employers and workers: organizations and strategies
	Frameworks and processes before 1914
	Trade unions, coalowners\' associations and industrial relations 1914-40
	\'United we stand\': the traditional battlegrounds of Celtic Britain
4 Employers and workers: ideologies, attitudes and political orientations
	Pressure groups and politics
	Miners\' leaders and miners\' militancy
5 Configurations of strike activity
	From Nine Mile Point to Bothwell Castle: dimensions, concentration and prevalence of coalmining strikes
	\'Back up pit\' in Shotts and Barnsley: persistent strike locations
6 Strike participation and solidarity before 1912
	\'We band of brothers\': the limits of solidarity
	\'Stop the wheels\': generating solidarity before the 1912 national strike
7 Strikes, organization and consciousness in 1912 and after
	The solidaristic basis of the first national coal strike
	\'Everybody out\': the national lock-outs of 1921 and 1926
	Local exemplifications: the Ammanford anthracite strike of 1925 and the Harworth strike of 1936-7
8 Conflictual context? The\'isolated mass\'revisited
	Locality and community: illustrations, models and critiques
	Meaning and measurement of the \'isolated mass\'
	Appendix: the area sample and statistical procedures
9 Mining and modernity: size, sectionalism and solidarity
	Consequences of size: ideas and hypotheses
	The \'size effect\' in coalmining
	Appendix: the colliery sample and statistical procedure
10 The foundations of strike propensity
	Alternative models of coalfield conflict
	Testing the models: the basis of strike propensity in coalmining
	Appendix: statistical procedures
11 Miners and management: agency and action
	\'Staying down and marching out\': pit strikes
	Pit culture: miners and managers
12 Industrial relations and strikes after nationalization
	Management, labour and government
	Change or continuity? The delineation and distribution of coalmining strikes1947-66
13 International perspectives
	International patterns and analyses
	The European context
	Euro-American comparisons: limitations and possibilities
14 Myths and realities: strikes, solidarity and \'militant miners\'
General appendix
List of references
Index