Coalfield justice : the 1984-85 miners' strike in Scotland / Jim Phillips.

Phillips, Jim, 1968-, author

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

248 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Specialized.

In June 2022, former miners secured through the Scottish Parliament a collective pardon for convictions acquired during the 1984-85 miners' strike. The Miners' Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Act recognised the distinct injustices facing Scottish strikers: twice as likely to be arrested as those in England and Wales and three times as likely to be sacked. This book analyses the injustices of the strike, and shows how the pardons were won, using thirty oral history testimonies from former strikers and family members. They remembered the injustices of arrest, conviction and employment dismissal.

9781399536493 (hbk)

331.89282233409411

HD5367.M62 1984

Lo 331.892 PHI

English

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