The near destruction of the coal industry and the NUM offers a timely vantage point from which to appraise their history. This book presents a collection of spe

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in Br

No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining c

From its formation in 1944, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was one of the most powerful and important players on the British political and industrial s

This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented