This book, first published in 1986, examines the minersâ strike of 1984-5 â an event that formed the decisive break with a forty-year-old British tradition of political and industrial compromise. The stakes for the main parties were so high that the price each was willing to pay, the loss each was willing to sustain, exceeded anything seen in an industrial dispute in half a century. This book examines and assesses the strikeâs full implications, and puts it into its historical and political context.
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