Nine Days in May The General Strike of 1926 | 5.68 MB
Title: Nine Days in May
Author: Jonathan Schneer
Category: Nonfiction, History, British, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Language: English | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0192894536
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The General Strike of 1926: the tragic story of how the world’s best organized working class confronted the world’s most powerful, and self-confident, government. In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to lengthen their working day and cut their pay. This General Strike brought the country to a grinding halt – which, according to Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, represented a threat not merely to the nation but to the parliamentary system itself. For nine days, the world’s best organized working class confronted the world’s most powerful, and self-confident, government. And yet the outcome was never in doubt, for Britain’s most important trade-union leaders thought as Baldwin did, although they kept saying they were engaged in a wages dispute only. Really, they feared winning even more than they feared losing. In Nine Days in May, award-winning…
The General Strike of 1926: the tragic story of how the world’s best organized working class confronted the world’s most powerful, and self-confident, government. In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to lengthen their working day and cut their pay. This General Strike brought the country to a grinding halt – which, according to Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, represented a threat not merely to the nation but to the parliamentary system itself. For nine days, the world’s best organized working class confronted the world’s most powerful, and self-confident, government. And yet the outcome was never in doubt, for Britain’s most important trade-union leaders thought as Baldwin did, although they kept saying they were engaged in a wages dispute only. Really, they feared winning even more than they feared losing. In Nine Days in May, award-winning…
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