Making cultures of solidarity : London and the 1984-5 Miners' Strike
Kelliher, Diarmaid2021
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Total copies: 1
This text combines radical history, critical geography, and political theory in an innovative history of the solidarity campaign in London during the 1984-5 miners' strike. Thousands of people collected food and money, joined picket lines and demonstrations, organised meetings, travelled to mining areas, and hosted coalfield activists in their homes during the strike. The support campaign encompassed longstanding elements of the British labour movement as well as autonomously organised Black, lesbian and gay, and feminist support groups. This book shows how the solidarity of 1984-5 was rooted in the development of mutual relationships of support between the coalfields and the capital since the late 1960s. It argues that a culture of solidarity was developed through industrial and political struggles that brought together diverse activists from mining communities and London.
Main title:
Making cultures of solidarity : London and the 1984-5 Miners' Strike / Diarmaid Kelliher.
Author:
Kelliher, Diarmaid, author
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2021.
Collation:
xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780367672423 (pbk)
Dewey class:
331.8928223340941331.892822
Language:
English
Subject:
Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centurySolidarity -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centurySocial movements -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryPolitical participation -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryLondon (England) -- History -- 1951-
BRN:
3110824