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Steelworkers in Struggle: An Oral History of the 1980 National Steel Strike

Steelworkers in Struggle: An Oral History of the 1980 National Steel Strike - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Charlie McGuirePublish date:2025-05-20Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526123206ISBN-10:1526123207UPC:9781526123206Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Labor & Industrial Relations, Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCDMP43P5E

Using oral histories gathered from trade unionists, this book explores the national steelworkers strike of 1980 and asserts its significance as a key turning point in modern British history. The strike was nominally a response to a 2% pay offer made by British Steel Corporation (BSC), at a time when inflation was 17%, but was generated by the widespread works closures that characterised the British steel industry at this time. The outcome of the strike was a much higher pay increase but no change to the deindustrialisation strategy of BSC and the government. The book explores the strike from the perspective of those who fought it and reveals the short and longer-term consequences it had on the industry, the unions and the workers themselves.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526123206ISBN-10:1526123207UPC:9781526123206Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Labor & Industrial Relations, Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCDMP43P5E
Charlie McGuire is a Senior Lecturer in History at Teesside University
Publisher: Manchester University Press

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