246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Apart from the ballot, strikes are the commonest means of attempted social change in Britain. There have been some 100,000 strikes in this country in eighty years, and 1971 saw more stoppages than any other year. Yet the standard twentieth-century social history text acknowledges only one strike, the General Strike of 1926. Such accounts of strikes as do exist are written by academics, by social... Read more
Introduction 1. 1887–1914: Early Starters 2. 1914–1925: Heroes and Brothers 3. 1926: General Strike and Miners’ Lockout 4. 1927–1945 5. 1945–1960: Influence and Affluence 6. 1960–1971: Motivated Men
Biography
R.A. Leeson, a journalist and writer, has written widely for trade union and labour movement journals.
