{"product_id":"the-1926-miners-lockout-hester-barron-9780199575046","title":"The 1926 Miners' Lockout","description":"The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective values and behavior, focusing particularly on the tensions between identities based around class and occupation, and the rival identities that could cut across the creation of a cohesive community. Highlighting the continuing importance of differences due to gender, age, religion, poverty, and individual hopes and aspirations, she nevertheless finds that in 1926, despite such differences, the Durham coalfield continued to display the solidarity for which miners were famed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn response, Barron argues that the very concept of the \"mining community\" needs to be reassessed. Rather than consisting of an homogeneous occupational identity, she suggests that the essence of community lay in its ability to subsume and integrate other categories of identity. A collective consciousness was further grounded in a shared historical narrative that had to be continually reinforced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was the strength of such local solidarities that enabled both an exemplary regional response to the strike, and the ability to conceptualize such action within the wider framework of the national union. \u003cem\u003eThe 1926 Miners' Lockout \u003c\/em\u003eprovides crucial insights into issues of collective identity and collective action, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities and cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hester Barron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199575045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199575046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d","brand":"Hester Barron","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419024605439,"sku":"9780199575046","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a438ac3-f4cd-49a5-89cd-8d352324778b.jpg?v=1761508983","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-1926-miners-lockout-hester-barron-9780199575046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}