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The Miners’ Strike: Economics or Politics?
Author(s) -
Green David
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01093.x
Subject(s) - politics , collective bargaining , capitalism , political economy , trade union , political science , economics , sociology , law , labour economics
Was the Scargill‐MacGregor confrontation an episode in collective bargaining or a clash between economic and political interest groups? Dr Green, a political scientist and a former Labour councillor, argues that the NUM President's motivation lay deeper in the attempt to use the Union for a political attack on ‘capitalism’ by exploiting the ‘liberal ethic’.