The miners’ strike of 1984-85 | 10-Minute Talks | The British Academy
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- The miners’ strike of 1984-85 can be considered the last great battle of the organised industrial working class in the UK. The defeat of the strike led to deindustrialisation, the rapid closure of pits, the redundancy of the miners and the hollowing out of mining communities which impacts politics to this day.
In this talk, Robert Gildea examines the miners’ strike through the lenses of class, community, and family, how it was both a performance and crisis of masculinity, and how the men and women involved reinvented themselves afterwards.
He is currently writing an oral history of the 1984-85 miners' strike based on the research project, ‘Class, community and family: the 1984-1985 miners’ strike in history and memory’.
Speaker: Professor Robert Gildea FBA, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
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Image: Demonstrators during the National Miners Strike in 1984 out in force at Sunderland's Wearmouth Colliery, demonstrating their solidarity as an NCB deadline to abandon the pit approached on 11 October 1984. Photo by NCJ Archive / Mirrorpix / Getty Images.
I was a 11 years old french boy and I remember that french CGT union sent a truck with clothes blanklets and Xmas gifts for Kids to Uk and a beautiful speaking from the leader.
"Their struggle is our, too"
Sorry for my bad english....
I was never a miner but come from a big mining area and witnessed the suffering of my friends from striking families. Anyone with half a brain, knew the strike would be lost from the outset. The first pit to strike held a ballot and the members voted NOT to strike. The result was dismissed by NUM officials who called a strike anyway. Scargill used the miners to fight a class war. All the pits are now gone and the mining villages and towns are better for it. No more dust and soot covered buildings and landscapes. Air you can breathe. Some miners moved on with their lives and careers to great success. Others stayed, to this day, mourning their rose tinted memories of being a miner.
I never met a miner that wanted his son to become a miner.
I have to agree with you, I have met retired miners who would go back down the pit at the drop of a hat.
Very interesting, thank you.
Scargill began a fight he could not win.
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It was the right thing to do it - but it was done destructively rather than constructively
Divide and Conquer. This is why the bonus scheme was a set up, to turn one pit field vs another, so where one pit earned a lot more money than the others, thanks to Joe Gormley, who was given a golden handshake and a knighthood by the govt, but was seen as a Judas by the striking miners.
With all due respect Professor, your perseption of the Weslh mining communities, is a little narrow minded.
He is a Thatcherite! You are actually living in a dream world! The term ‘masculinity’ only has one connotation in this context : He is saying that the strikers were motivated only by
-- V A N I T Y : This is a slur : This is cheap NAME-CALLING! Get serious!
It's not a bad overview - but the feminist-reaching 'kept women as their own personal slaves' and the idea that working class men 'went around' is wholly inaccurate. Every system has its own advantages and disadvantages yet it is important to remain clear - If that society you grow is insular and self-serving then the consequences of straying away from community will come back to haunt you.
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