Dr Lewis Mates lewis.mates@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
This article examines political change in the Durham Miners' Association (D.M.A.), one of the best-established, largest and most influential Edwardian trade unions. It argues that the hitherto ignored rank-and-file movements (especially the Durham Forward Movement from May 1912) deserve a central explanatory role in offering new perspectives on the nature and strength of the Independent Labour Party's (I.L.P.) challenge to the Liberal hegemony within the D.M.A. The agency of a new, younger generation of emerging I.L.P. activists, framing an appeal to miners' material interests harnessed to a radical reforming agenda and support for Labour, meant that Labour's prospects in the Durham coalfield by August 1914 were rather more positive than has been recognized.
Mates, L. (2014). ‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”. Historical Research, 87(236), 316-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 11, 2013 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 13, 2014 |
Publication Date | 2014-05 |
Deposit Date | May 11, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 8, 2021 |
Journal | Historical Research |
Print ISSN | 0950-3471 |
Electronic ISSN | 1468-2281 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 87 |
Issue | 236 |
Pages | 316-343 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1404962 |
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Historical Research following peer review. The version of record [Mates, Lewis (2014). ‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”. Historical Research 87(236): 316-343.] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040
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