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- Arthur Horner: Vol 1 1894-1944
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Lawrence & Wishart
summary
Arthur Horner (1894-1968) was a British miners’ leader from the 1926 general strike to his retirement as general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1959. During his life he played a crucial role in the fight for a national mineworkers union, and in the development of the National Coal Board. He was a champion of the Republicans in Spain and was imprisoned several times for his political views. Coming from a working-class family, and being forced through poverty to leave school at the age of eleven, Horner devoted his life to the struggle for socialism. He was a committed communist, but was also able to exercise effective leadership in a major trade union committed to social democratic principles, playing a key role in the social democratic settlement after the Second World War. This biography, in two volumes, documents the contribution Horner made to trade unionism, and to the creation of a social democratic commonwealth in postwar Britain.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 1-3
- Abbreviations
- pp. 4-8
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 19-30
- 2. Growing Up
- pp. 31-50
- 3. The Young Man
- pp. 51-76
- 6. Regrouping
- pp. 144-185
- 7. Trials of Will and Conscience
- pp. 186-231
- 8. Watershed
- pp. 232-267
- 9. The Datcha in the Anthracite
- pp. 268-315
- 10. Federation President
- pp. 316-362
- 11. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
- pp. 363-409
- 12. Fighting the War on Two Fronts
- pp. 410-454
Additional Information
ISBN
9781909831742
Related ISBN(s)
9781907103070
MARC Record
OCLC
899261471
Pages
618
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No