Split at the Seams?

Part 1 Communities and conflict: community profiles - the ideal-type mining community, a sense of community; community experience of the strike - strike mobilization, strike maintenance activity, conflict within each community, the termination of the strike, implications for unity. Part 2 Everyday life: work and industrial relations - employee-management relations, relations between workers, trade union activity; gender relations - work, domestic roles during the strike, women's organizations, role reversal, marriage, women and politics, reverting to normality; family, social life and leisure - social netwirks, gendered leisure, leisure facilities. Part 3 Authoritative institutions: the legal system - police-community relations during the strike, local police and "outsiders", the judicial process, police-community relations since the strike; the mass media - media trustworthiness, the prevalence of media bias, source of media bias, the effects of media bias, changing habits, changing attitudes; the political system - national politics, local politics, political consciousness, political activism. Part 4 Retrospect and prospect: prospects for the future - the future of local mining, the impact of industrial change, the community; continuity, cataclysm and change - local political cultures and the strike, the remaking of community, the impact of the strike, mining communities and social change. Appendices: method and findings of the survey; chronology of events during the strike.