Huw Beynon

, Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike

ed. Beynon, Huw,

Beynon, Huw; Cox, Andrew; Hudson, Ray, Digging Up Trouble: The Environment, Protest and Opencast Mining

General analysis of impact of opencast (strip) mining which spread in Britain in the 1980s. Chapter 7 ‘Changing Patterns of Protest’ (pp. 167-206) looks at the collaboration between the National Union of Miners’ Support Groups and environmental groups to oppose mines creating pollution, and examines the turn from conventional protest to direct action.

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Huw Beynon

, Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike

Beynon, Huw; Cox, Andrew; Hudson, Ray, Digging Up Trouble: The Environment, Protest and Opencast Mining

A Guide to Civil Resistance

Volume One

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