List of figures and tables Preface List of abbreviations 1. Interpreting coalfield conflict: focus and formulations 2. Tradition and modernity: the mining industry 1889-1940 3. Employers and workers: organizations and strategies 4. Employers and workers: ideologies, attitudes and political orientations 5. Configurations of strike activity 6. Strike participation and solidarity before 1912 7. Strikes, organization and consciousness in 1912 and after 8. Conflictual context? The 'isolated mass' revisited 9. Mining and modernity: size, sectionalism and solidarity 10. The foundations of strike propensity 11. Miners and management: agency and action 12. Industrial relations and strikes after nationalization 13. International perspectives 14. Myths and realities: strikes, solidarity and 'militant miners' General appendix.
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