Women and the Miners'' Strike, 1984-1985

Examines the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the miners' strike of 1984-1985 to shed new light on working-class women's relationship to the 'political' and the 'ordinary', and demonstrate the ways in which gender roles, working-class lifestyles, and coalfield communities changed across post-war Britain.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Before the strike


• 3: Early days: Spring 1984


• 4: High noon: Summer 1984


• 5: Crisis and drift: Autumn 1984


• 6: Flood back to defeat: Winter 1984-1985


• 7: Aftermath


• 8: Remembering the strike


• Appendix I: Details of project interviewees


• Appendix II: Details of key sociological studies of the strike and aftermath


• Appendix III: Chronology

About the author

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is a historian of twentieth-century Britain, focusing particularly on class, gender, and politics. Her first book examined political and popular ideas about class in England between 1968 and 2000, and she is also co-editor (with Ben Jackson and Aled Davies) of a collection examining whether Britain since the 1970s should be seen as 'neoliberal'. She teaches modern British history at UCL.

Natalie Thomlinson works at the University of Reading, and is a historian of feminism and gender in modern Britain. Her previous works include Race, Ethnicity and the Women's Movement in England, 1968-1993 (2016), which was named as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2016.

Summary

Examines the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the miners' strike of 1984-1985 to shed new light on working-class women's relationship to the 'political' and the 'ordinary', and demonstrate the ways in which gender roles, working-class lifestyles, and coalfield communities changed across post-war Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Florence (Associate Prof Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Natalie Thomlinson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9780192843098
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284309-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Oral History, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history