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Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9780708324509 Published February 2012 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
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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

Sue Bruley

The Women and Men of 1926

Sue Bruley

Distributed for University of Wales Press

202 pages | 19 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2010
Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9780708324509 Published February 2012 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
Cloth $65.00 ISBN: 9780708322758 Published July 2010 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
E-book $70.00 ISBN: 9780708324516 Will Publish October 2019 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

In The Women and Men of 1926 Sue Bruley recounts the social history of the mining communities in south Wales during the 1926 lockout. Relying on hitherto unpublished oral testimony as well as other archival material, Bruley investigates how households coped with the lockout and assesses the impact that it had on gender relations. Individual chapters consider topics such as school canteens, miners’ lodges, recreational activities, picketing, and politics.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Map of the South Wales Coalfield

1. Introduction
2. Gender and Family
3. Collective Eating and Public Authorities 
4. Having Fun, Getting By and Outside Help
5. Women, Politics and Pickets
6. Defeat, Aftermath and Legacy
7. Last Word

Notes
Appendix: Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Journal of British Studies

“Bruley has written a significant work that builds on a ’new mining history’ that seeks to move beyond the parameters of leaders, organizations, and national perspectives. Overall,the book is a moving and impressive analytical study of coalfield society in a period of intense industrial conflict.”

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