{"product_id":"the-miners-strike-1984-85","title":"The Miners` Strike 1984-85","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yate \u0026amp; District Labour History Group`s approach to the year-long strike of the National Union of Mineworkers has three points of articulation. The first is Yate \u0026amp; District Heritage Centre`s history of mining in the Yate area. The second is the ÒReaders` LettersÓ pages of the Dursley Gazette, where payment for provision of policing the strike was the chief topic. The third topic is the activities of the Conservative Party`s elite`s discussion of future tactics following the Heath government`s defeat by the miners in 1974. The dialectical systems theory used provides the framework holding the research together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author was an apprenticed and operative plumber, later becoming a plumbing lecturer at Oxford College of Art, Technology and Commerce, before making the shift to sociology in the late 1960s. He then became a lecturer in sociology at Filton College, Bristol. He has been a Labour Party member since the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44224419233953,"sku":"9781291982084","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1dmq4q7y-front-shortedge-384_dcfc6c5a-50f2-4fb7-8429-8395455fd962.jpg?v=1718415175","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-miners-strike-1984-85","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}