Very British Strike : The General Strike 1926
by Perkins, AnneFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-12-30
Publisher(s): Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Summary
At midnight on May 3, 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a Socialist revolution. Yet in the ensuing nine days, far from working for the overthrow of the state, strikers and strike-breakers mobilized to save parliamentary democracy. Although the strike was one of the most dramatic peacetime event in 20th-century Britain, affecting every inhabitant of every townthroughout the country, it was remarkable more for its discipline and control than for street battles and picket line violence. There were no deaths and few injuries, while in one city, Plymouth, police and pickets played football together. Capitulation, when it came on May 12th, was almost as total as it was unexpected.
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