A01=Andrew Taylor
Author_Andrew Taylor
Category=KCZ
Category=KNXU
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coal
Coal Industry
Coal Price Increase
Coal Prices
Conciliation Machinery
conference
Energy Policy
energy policy transition
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fuel
Fuel Policy
industrial relations
industry
labour movement history
MFGB
miners union political influence
Morrisonian Public Corporation
National Fuel Policy
NEC Member
NEC's Decision
NEC's Policy
NUM Conference
NUM President
NUM's Leader
NUM's Member
NUM's Policy
NUM's Representative
ownership
pit
Pit Closure Programme
Pit Closures
Pit Managers
policy
postwar British society
prices
public
Reid Report
state capitalism analysis
trade union archives
TUC General Council
TUC's Policy
TUC's Proposal
Product details
- ISBN 9780754606901
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From its formation in 1944, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was one of the most powerful and important players on the British political and industrial stage. Whilst the nation relied upon coal for its electricity production, domestic heating and railway transportation, the miners and their unions would always play a central role in national politics with the ability to cause massive disruption to the nation, should they decide to strike, as they did in 1972 and 1974. However, as the country began to move towards other forms of energy, such as oil and gas, the power of the mineworkers correspondingly decreased, leaving the once mighty union to come to terms with a very different world by the early eighties. The NUM and British Politics makes use of union material and party and government archives as well as oral testimony, much of it highly confidential, to present the first overall account of the evolving nature of the tripartite relationship between the miners, the NUM and the state.
Andrew Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK
