Striking Stuff - Jean A. Gittins
A collection of poems that were written by a member of Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 miners' strike and read at fundraising benefits around the coalfield. Taken from the 1 in 12 Publications archive.
Jenny Tells Her Tale: Stories From the Yorkshire Miners
Memories of the 1984-5 miners' strike from Jenny Dennis, who was married to a Kiveton Park miner. Covering a range of subjects including the links the strike made with autonomous movements across Europe.
Content note: this text mentions sexual abuse and state violence, and contains some language that would now be considered dated.
‘Women Against Pit Closures’ during the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike.
During the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike, women’s groups emerged in various forms and for various purposes. Calling themselves ‘Women Against Pit Closures’, these groups across the country organised not only strike-oriented activities, support and community needs provision, but also came to act autonomously on gendered interests. In what follows I outline a brief history of the miners’ strike, the origins of womens’ activities within this strictly gendered strike and the ways in which womens’ roles were transformed through struggle, not only with the Thatcher government and the NCB, but also with men and the NUM.
‘Women Against Pit Closures’ 1984-5
The UK coalminers’ dispute, 1973-4
The 1972 miners' strike: popular agency and industrial politics in Britain
Workers Playtime on the miners' strike
Polmaise: the fight for a pit - John McCormack and Simon Pirani
Digging deeper: issues in the miners' strike - Huw Beynon
A collection of articles by 17 different authors analysing the UK miners' strike in detail. It examines the issues at stake, the Tories' strategy, the role of the police and the courts, the miners and their supporters and families, and the TUC and the Labour Party. Published while the strike was still ongoing, in 1985.
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