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The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s-1915

Mates, Lewis

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Emmanuelle Avril
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Yann Béliard
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Abstract

This chapter addresses the complex interplay of disunities on three main levels; intra-organisational, inter-organisational and between labour organisations and spontaneous working-class protests. It does so by examining the struggle for control of the well-established and influential Durham Miners’ Association’ as a case study. It firstly considers the historiographical debates and the applicability of the ‘leaders vs. led’ model to disunities within the union from the 1890s-1910. The focus then turns to spontaneous protest in relation to the mass unofficial striking and rioting that emerged with changed shift systems as part of the implementation of the eight hour day in 1910. Finally, it considers seven distinct forms of disunity that, taken together, show how a generally younger cohort of more radical socialists were able to emerge from the trauma of 1910 to build a mass movement around the miners’ minimum wage. It allowed them to undermine the Liberal DMA leaders on the one hand and outflank the syndicalists on the other.

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Mates, L. (2018). The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s-1915. In E. Avril, & Y. Béliard (Eds.), Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526126320.001.0001

Online Publication Date Jan 31, 2019
Publication Date 2018
Deposit Date Aug 20, 2019
Publicly Available Date Sep 8, 2021
Publisher Manchester University Press
Book Title Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present
Chapter Number 3
DOI https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526126320.001.0001
Publisher URL https://manchester.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7228/manchester/9781526126320.001.0001/upso-9781526126320-chapter-004

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