ISBN: 9780199575046

The miners'' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one m… More...

The miners'' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, itsimpact was profound. 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 thecreation 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 whichminers 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 collectiveconsciousness 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 andcollective action, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities and cultures. | The 1926 Miners' Lockout by Hester Barron Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History P10103, Hester Barron<

ISBN: 9780199575046

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lock… More...

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.; Business, Finance & Law, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780199575046

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hes… More...

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities., Social & Cultural History<

2009, ISBN: 9780199575046

Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press]