Britain's Revolutionary Summer - Mustill, Edd
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Midnight, 30 April 1926. Coalowners lock out a million miners. In response, British workers across the country down their tools. Britain's first General Strike has begun. The government feared that the country teetered on the brink of revolution. Trade union leaders thought they'd be shot by the end of the week. For nine days, trains, buses and trams stopped running. Lorries could only leave the docks protected by military convoy. In Birmingham, the police hunted down city councillors, and in London they raided trade union headquarters. And for those in the coalfields, from South Wales to…mehr

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Midnight, 30 April 1926. Coalowners lock out a million miners. In response, British workers across the country down their tools. Britain's first General Strike has begun. The government feared that the country teetered on the brink of revolution. Trade union leaders thought they'd be shot by the end of the week. For nine days, trains, buses and trams stopped running. Lorries could only leave the docks protected by military convoy. In Birmingham, the police hunted down city councillors, and in London they raided trade union headquarters. And for those in the coalfields, from South Wales to Scotland, the strike would not last nine days, but nine months. On the strike's centenary, Edd Mustill tells the story of why millions of workers came out on strike, and why the government did anything it could to quash them.
Autorenporträt
Edd Mustill is a trade unionist and labour historian. He is the author of The Sheffield Workers’ Committee: Rank and file trade unionism during the First World War and the editor of The Global Labour Movement: An Introduction. He lives in Sheffield.