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‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”

Mates, Lewis

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This article examines political change in the Durham Miners' Association (D.M.A.), one of the best-established, largest and most influential Edwardian trade unions. It argues that the hitherto ignored rank-and-file movements (especially the Durham Forward Movement from May 1912) deserve a central explanatory role in offering new perspectives on the nature and strength of the Independent Labour Party's (I.L.P.) challenge to the Liberal hegemony within the D.M.A. The agency of a new, younger generation of emerging I.L.P. activists, framing an appeal to miners' material interests harnessed to a radical reforming agenda and support for Labour, meant that Labour's prospects in the Durham coalfield by August 1914 were rather more positive than has been recognized.

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Mates, L. (2014). ‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”. Historical Research, 87(236), 316-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 11, 2013
Online Publication Date Apr 13, 2014
Publication Date 2014-05
Deposit Date May 11, 2016
Publicly Available Date Sep 8, 2021
Journal Historical Research
Print ISSN 0950-3471
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 87
Issue 236
Pages 316-343
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Historical Research following peer review. The version of record [Mates, Lewis (2014). ‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”. Historical Research 87(236): 316-343.] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040





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