eprintid: 10066841
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2019-02-04 14:22:00
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence
creators_name: Thomlinson, Natalie
title: National Women Against Pit Closures: gender, trade unionism and community activism in the miners' strike, 1984–5
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F28
keywords: Women, activism, social movements, mining, trade unionism
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abstract: This article will offer the first historical assessment of the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. It shows that it was not a spontaneous formation but the result of work by a network of committed, long-time activists with strong connections to the left, including the Communist Party and the Women’s Liberation Movement. It will show how key questions caused divisions within the national organisation as it grew. In particular, activists were divided over whether the movement should aim solely to support the strike, or whether it should have broader aims relating to women’s lives, gender and feminism. Related to this, the movement divided over relationships with Arthur Scargill and the National Union of Mineworkers, and the question of which women should be allowed to be members. Finally, the article examines how these questions grew more pressing after the end of the strike, and how and why the national movement had largely disappeared three years after the strike.
date: 2018
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2017.1408540
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Journal Article
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elements_id: 1548822
doi: 10.1080/13619462.2017.1408540
lyricists_name: Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence
lyricists_id: FSUTC15
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Contemporary British History
volume: 32
number: 1
pagerange: 78-100
issn: 1743-7997
citation:        Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence;    Thomlinson, Natalie;      (2018)    National Women Against Pit Closures: gender, trade unionism and community activism in the miners' strike, 1984–5.                   Contemporary British History , 32  (1)   pp. 78-100.    10.1080/13619462.2017.1408540 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2017.1408540>.       Green open access   
 
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