The 1972 miners' strike: popular agency and industrial politics in Britain

Pickets during the 1972 miners' strike

Pickets during the 1972 miners' strike

A detailed and informative account of the successful nationwide strike of UK miners in 1972, written as an academic paper by Jim Phillips.

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