Strike 84-85 : North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures by North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures` - 1985

Leeds, Yorks, England: North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 68 pages b/w photos - name stamp inside - The UK miners' strike of 1984 - 85 was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trade union movement. It was also seen as a major political victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. The strike became a symbolic struggle, as the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was one of the strongest unions in the country, viewed by many, including Conservatives in power, as having brought down the Heath government in the union's 1974 strike. The later strike ended with the miners' defeat and the Thatcher government able to consolidate its fiscally conservative programme. The political power of the NUM was broken permanently. Three deaths resulted from events around the strike: two picketers and a taxi driver taking a non-striking miner to work.