Description: Further DetailsTitle: The General Strike 1926Condition: NewFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/31/2023EAN: 9781399083973Subtitle: A New HistoryISBN: 9781399083973Publisher: Pen & Sword TransportDescription: The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support. With their families and some middle-class sympathisers, the miners and the labour and trade union movement found itself pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus of the state, the powerful mineowners backed by the Conservative Government and most of the media of the time in what was the sharpest form of class conflict short of political revolution. It had always said that the British didn't do general strikes. In 1926 they certainly did!2026 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the General Strike and, under the very different economic, social and political conditions of post-industrial, post-Brexit Britain, it is worth revisiting and examining the complicated coming together of factors which were eventually to lead to those extraordinary days in May 1926 when the fate of the nation lay in the balance.The author examines the economic, social and political processes taking places from the mid-nineteenth century and argues that this major confrontation between labour and capital was probably inevitable. He examines particularly the symbiotic relationship between the coal miners and the railway workers and the troubled industrial relations in those industries. His informed and lucid account should interest students of modern British history, labour history and the fortunes of the railways in this period.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: David BrandonGenre: Business & FinanceTopic: Law & Politics, HistoryISBN-10: 139908397XType: Great BritainRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The General Strike 1926
Title: The General Strike 1926
Release Date: 03/31/2023
Release Year: 2023
EAN: 9781399083973
Subtitle: A New History
ISBN: 9781399083973
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
ISBN-10: 139908397X
Type: Great Britain
Book Title: General Strike 1926 :A New History
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books The Limited
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: David Brandon
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
