Overview
Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay. ""The Women and Men of 1926"" investigates the Lock-Out from the perspective of gender relations, offering a social history of the mining communities in south Wales during the Lock-Out. Sue Bruley aims to analyse how individual families and households coped with the Lock-Out and to assess how gender relations were affected, using hitherto unpublished oral testimony as well as other archive material. Individual chapters consider topics such as school canteens, miners' lodges, recreational activities, picketing and politics.
Full Product Details
Author: Sue Bruley
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780708322758
ISBN 10: 0708322751
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 April 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Bruley has written a significant work that builds on a 'new mining history' that seeks to move beyond the parameters of leaders, organizations, and national perspectives. Overall, the book is a moving and impressive analytical study of coalfield society in a period of intense industrial conflict. --Journal of British Studies
""Bruley has written a significant work that builds on a 'new mining history' that seeks to move beyond the parameters of leaders, organizations, and national perspectives. Overall, the book is a moving and impressive analytical study of coalfield society in a period of intense industrial conflict."" -- ""Journal of British Studies""
Bruley has written a significant work that builds on a 'new mining history' that seeks to move beyond the parameters of leaders, organizations, and national perspectives. Overall, the book is a moving and impressive analytical study of coalfield society in a period of intense industrial conflict. -- Journal of British Studies
Author Information
Sue Bruley is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth. She has published widely on women, work and politics in inter-war Britain, and is the author of Leninism, Stalinism and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1920-39 (1986), Women in Britain Since 1900 (1999), and Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory (2001).
