Before the storm: The experience of nationalization and the prospects for industrial relations partnership in the British coal industry, 1947–1972 – rethinking the militant narrative

Social History

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 184-209

  Ackers, Peter ^a   Payne, Jonathan ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84986632295     PISSN: 03071022     EISSN: 14701200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03071020210128391     Document Type: Article

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