Very British Strike: 3 May - 12 May 1926 - Rilegato

Perkins, Anne

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ISBN 10: 1405049960 ISBN 13: 9781405049962

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2006

Riassunto

At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a Socialist revolution. Yet in the ensuing nine days, far from working for the overthrow of the state, strikers as well as strike-breakers mobilised to save parliamentary democracy.
The General Strike, a doomed attempt to halt pay cuts in Britain's faltering industries, was perhaps the most dramatic peacetime event in twentieth-century Britain. It affected every inhabitant of every town of any size throughout the country. In an imitation of the soviets of early revolutionary Russia, local committees of trade unionists controlled the distribution of food and power. Newspapers were shut down. Only the unfamiliar voice of the BBC broke the silence and heralded a new era of communication.
A Very British Strike draws on previously unpublished sources and contemporary accounts as well as meticulous research, building a picture of exactly how and why the Strike began and how Britain's brief revolutionary spark burned out less than two weeks later.

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Descrizione del libro

A compelling history of Britain's revolutionary moment - the General Strike of May 1926 - published to coincide with the 80th anniversary

L'autore

Anne Perkins graduated from London University with a first-class degree in history and joined the BBC as a trainee journalist. She has been a political correspondent for the BBC, Channel 4 News and, most recently, the Guardian, where she is currently a leader writer. A regular broadcaster, she lives in Dorset with her husband and two daughters.

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405049960
• ISBN 13: 9781405049962
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 356