| Description | A discussion between Tina and Joe Docherty, and Joe Mandara, with questions from Charles Parker. The discussion involves a debate between the Tina, a miner's wife, and Joe, a miner, on the motivations of the miners and their determination to strike. They also discuss social services provision for the strikers and their families, governmental treatment of strike action, as well as attitudes to striking and crossing the picket line.
Track 1: Argument between Tina and Joe over miners' attitudes to 1971 Miner's Strike for pay rise after their overtime ban, with reference to the effects this had on the wives and families 3.17 mins
Track 2: Attitude to the strike and its effects 2.47 mins
Track 3: Early intentions to go ahead and strike despite effects of overtime ban, and consideration of the wives and families 3.32 mins
Track 4: Social Security payments for the families of mining strikers 2.40 mins
Track 5: Governmental change and effects on strike conditions 2.58 mins
Track 6: Pay on the picketing line 3.02 mins
Track 7: Miners who didn't strike 3.44 mins
Track 8: Joe Mandara talks about mining machinery 4.11 mins
Track 9: Discussing the negative effects of strike action, and alternative methods of affecting production to protest change and improve work conditions, i.e. a 'work to rule' system 3.13 mins
Track 10: 'Work to rule' and overtime ban system, protesting the system of work by manipulating the rules, instead of all out strike 2.27 mins
Track 11: Responses to the beginning of the decision to strike 2.31 mins
Track 12: Experiences of the strike process, the pay debate 2.53 mins
Track 13: Marching to the House of Commons, and difference in the experiences of miners in the earlier half of the twentieth century 3.27 mins
Track 14: Nationalisation of the coal mining service in Britain, and social mobility 2.47 mins
Track 15: Social mobility and lifestyle choices on miners' pay 3.44 mins
Track 16: Transferring miners to other striking mines, and tensions 3.55 mins
Total: 51.11 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLAKF565D1006280 |