Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–1947

Alan Campbell, University of Liverpool, UK, Nina Fishman, University of Westminster, UK, and David Howell, University of York, UK. Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, David Howell, David Egan, Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, David Gilbert, Trevor Griffiths, Andrew Taylor, Hywel Francis.

Contributors; List of Tables; List of Maps and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Introduction, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, David Howell; Part One: National Perspectives; "A Cult of Their Own": Syndicalism and The Miners' Next Step, David Egan; "All or Nowt": The Politics of the MFGB, David Howell; The Labour Party and Electoral Politics in the Coalfields, Duncan Tanner; Heroes and Anti-heroes: Communists in the Coalfields, Nina Fishman; Part Two: Regional Studies; "The Hope of the British Proletariat: The South Wales Miners, 1910-1947, Chris Williams; The Social History of Political Conflict in the Scots Coalfields, 1910-1939, Alan Campbell; The Miners, Unions and Politics in Nottinghamshire, 1910-47, David Gilbert; Work, Class and Community: Social Identities and Political Change in the Lancashire Coalfield, 1910-1939, Trevor Griffiths; The Politics of Labourism in the Yorkshire Coalfield, 1926-45, Andrew Taylor; Part Three: Outcomes: Learning from Bitter Experience: The Making of the NUM, Hywel Francis; The Beginning of the Beginning: The Miners and Nationalisation, 1947, Nina Fishman; Index.