Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
While other historians have skated over the labor unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general strike of 1926, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mine-owners, the government, and trade union leaders. Led by revolutionaries, this mass movement also offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism.
Synopsis
In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.