1st Edition
The Miners of Nottinghamshire 1914-1944 A History of the Nottinghamshire Miners' Unions
Contents 1. Business as Usual 2. The Uneasy Peace 3. The Datum Line Strike 4. The 1921 Lockout 5. The Aftermath 6. Depression and Recovery 7. Prelude to Disaster 8. The General Strike 9. The 1926 Lockout 10. The ‘Spencer’ Union 11. The TUC Intervenes 12. Mondism and the Minority Movement 13. The Union’s Leadership 14. In the Wilderness 15. Harworth and After 16. ‘One Big Union’.
Biography
Alan R. Griffin (1924-1996) began work as a clerical officer at Cinderhill Colliery after leaving school. He attended Miners' Welfare Day Release courses arranged by the Nottingham University Extra-Mural Department, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Workers' Educational Association. This led to him attending Nottingham University in 1952, and in 1955 he achieved a B.A. honours degree under Professor J.D. Chambers of the Department of Economic History. In 1957, Griffin was appointed as Area Manpower Officer in the No. 7 (Leics. and South Derbyshire) Area of the East Midlands Division of the National Coal Board.
Original Review of The Miners of Nottinghamshire:
‘What every reader of this volume will turn to is some new light on the Spencer Union, the only major example of a break-away company union in twentieth-century Britain, if the Seamen's Union be excepted.’ Sidney Pollard, The Economic History Review, New Series, Volume 15, No. 3 (1963)
