The Miners' Strike, 1984–5

Download or read book The Miners' Strike, 1984–5 written by Martin Adeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1986, examines the miners’ strike of 1984-5 – an event that formed the decisive break with a forty-year-old British tradition of political and industrial compromise. The stakes for the main parties were so high that the price each was willing to pay, the loss each was willing to sustain, exceeded anything seen in an industrial dispute in half a century. This book examines and assesses the strike’s full implications, and puts it into its historical and political context.