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The Women and Men of 1926: A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout in South Wales
Author(s): Sue Bruley (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 31 Mar. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780708322758
- ISBN-13: 0708322751
Book Description
Work on the miners’ Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner’s wives coped for six months without pay. “The Women and Men of 1926” investigates the Lock-Out from the perspective of gender relations, offering a social history of the mining communities in south Wales during the Lock-Out. Sue Bruley aims to analyse how individual families and households coped with the Lock-Out and to assess how gender relations were affected, using hitherto unpublished oral testimony as well as other archive material. Individual chapters consider topics such as school canteens, miners’ lodges, recreational activities, picketing and politics.
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About the Author
Sue Bruley is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth. She has published widely on women, work and politics in inter-war Britain, and is the author of Leninism, Stalinism and the Women’s Movement in Britain, 1920-39 (1986), Women in Britain Since 1900 (1999), and Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory (2001).
