Placeholder text
The 1926 Miners' Lockout
0 - Default Title
Description
Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective values and behaviour, focusing particularly on the tensions between identities based around class and occupation, and the rival identities that could cut across the creation of a cohesive community. Highlighting the continuing importance of differences due to gender, age, religion, poverty, and individual hopes and aspirations, she nevertheless finds that in 1926, despite such differences, the Durham coalfield continued to display the solidarity for which miners were famed.
In response, Barron argues that the very concept of the 'mining community' needs to be reassessed. Rather than consisting of an homogeneous occupational identity, she suggests that the essence of community lay in its ability to subsume and integrate other categories of identity. A collective consciousness was further grounded in a shared historical narrative that had to be continually reinforced.
It was the strength of such local solidarities that enabled both an exemplary regional response to the strike, and the ability to conceptualise such action within the wider framework of the national union. The 1926 Miners' Lockout provides crucial insights into issues of collective identity and collective action, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities and cultures.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
332
Release Date:
2010-02-08
Publication Date:
2009-12-10
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199575045
ISBN13:
9780199575046
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
601 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
Currently sold out