{"product_id":"reform-revolution-and-direct-action-amongst-british-miners-the-struggle-for-the-charter-in-1919-9781608468195","title":"Reform, Revolution And Direct Action Amongst","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile other historians have skated over the labour unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general strike of 1926, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mineowners, the government, and trade union leaders. Led by revolutionaries, this mass movement also offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a very long overdue book. It reveals a period of the most extraordinary militancy by the largest group of organised workers in Britain, a phenomenon which has largely been ignored. In 1919, as a revolutionary wave swept Europe, mass strikes gripped British coalfields waged against the coal owners, the government and the miners’ own national and regional union officials.” –Socialist Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction (with Paul Blackledge)  PART ONE  1. Political Alternatives in the Labour Movement in 1919 2. The Miners’ Federation of Great Britain: Bureaucratic Reformists, Militant Miners and the Development of the Miners’ Charter 3. Fife and Lanarkshire 4. Nottinghamshire 5. South Wales 6. Selling Sankey  PART TWO  Introduction: A Background Sketch of the Summer’s Crisis 7. Perspectives on Nationalisation in the Period of Manoeuvre 8. A Second Wave of Unrest 9. Yorkshire 10. The Demise of Direct Action and the Triumph of Electoralism  Bibliography Index","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359720898903,"sku":"9781608468195","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608468195.jpg?v=1754125512","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reform-revolution-and-direct-action-amongst-british-miners-the-struggle-for-the-charter-in-1919-9781608468195","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}