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Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 1982-1990

Gildart, Keith
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Gildart, Keith
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2006
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Coalmining
 Industrial relations
 National Union of Mineworkers
 Labour movement
 United Mineworkers of America
 Mining history
 20th century
 Political history
 Economic history
 Social history
 De-industrialization
 Leadership
 British history
 American history
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Explores the efforts of two left labor leaders, Arthur Scargill of the British National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Richard Trumka of the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA), to address the crisis of deindustrialization in 1980s. Role of leadership in determining industrial and political outcomes; Impact of the development of alternative sources of energy on British and U.S. coalfields; Background on the development of the UMWA and the NUM. (EBSCO)
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Labor, 3(2): 67-89
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press
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Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
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http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27175
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10.1215/15476715-2005-010
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en
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1547-6715
1558-1454
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