Richard Hyman takes part in the post-mortem on the miners’ strike
Richard Hyman, 6 June 1985
Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike
edited by Huw Beynon.
Verso, 252 pp., £3.95, March 1985,0 86091 820 3 Show More
edited by Huw Beynon.
Verso, 252 pp., £3.95, March 1985,
Policing the Miners’ Strike
edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar.
Lawrence and Wishart, 243 pp., £4.95, March 1985,0 85315 633 6 Show More
edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar.
Lawrence and Wishart, 243 pp., £4.95, March 1985,
The Strike: An Insider’s Story
by Roy Ottey.
Sidgwick, 157 pp., £7.95, March 1985,9780283992285 Show More
by Roy Ottey.
Sidgwick, 157 pp., £7.95, March 1985,
Scargill and the Miners
by Michael Crick.
Penguin, 172 pp., £2.95, March 1985,0 14 052355 3 Show More
by Michael Crick.
Penguin, 172 pp., £2.95, March 1985,
The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5 and its Lessons
by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons.
Socialist Worker, 256 pp., £3.95, April 1985,0 905998 50 2 Show More
by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons.
Socialist Worker, 256 pp., £3.95, April 1985,
“... of pits as uneconomic – was a natural corollary of government policy, particularly since the price paid for coal by the CEGB failed to rise in line with that of electricity itself. Thus the economics of mining, as ecologically-sensitive observers appreciated during the course of the dispute, cannot be assessed independently of the politics of energy, and ... ”