The Enemy without: Policing and Class Consciousness in the Miners' Strike

Abstract

Part 1 Criminology, industrial conflict and the miners' strike: introduction - a history of neglect criminology and the grip of new realism British criminology and the miners' strike class consciousness and policing. Part 2 The strike and its context: policing industrial conflict - the lessons of history, The Featherstone Riot, The Llanelli Riots 1911, the General Strike, policing the Depression the Post-War British political economy - from boom to recession Heath 1970-74 - crsis management social contracts and the Labour Party Thatcher - term one Thatcher - term two preparations for the confrontation - the Government, the Union the Nottinghamshire Coalfield the strike in profile. Part 3 Miners and the police: attitudes - past and present, the experiences of change, the thick blue line, police confrontation, police tactics, the process of arrest, police powers and civil liberties, political detention policing and the question of fairness working miners and the police the politics of strike policing a police state? police, violence and industrial conflict the policing and its effects - behaviour and consciousness. Part 4 Miners and the law: civil law and criminal law - perceptions and distinctions industrial disputes and the law law as an arena of struggle bail conditions - a tactical weapon the Court process legal representation a new consciousness - law, society and industrial conflict. Part 5 Government, employers and welfare: puppets and puppeteers policing by local management working miners and the NCB policing through welfare military intervention government intent. Part 6 trade union officials - policing by bureaucracy: a role of social regulation divisions and vacillations - area leadership branch officials Scargill and the National Executive rank and file organization - the strike committee, the Ollerton Women's Action Group the Trade Union Movement and the TUC. Part 7 Miners and the mass media: introduction - the policing of ideas what they read, what they watched - women, working miners changing options of the media distortion, sensationalism and bias the role of the mass media the lessons drawn neutral and anonymous?. Part 8 Class consciousness, policing and the Ollerton striking community: class consciousness - a theoretical overview policing - an amplifier of consciousness class consciousness and the miners divisions and unevenness - picketing and non-picketing strikers, women, working miners trade unions, reformism and class consciousness the revolutionary party and class consciousness. Appendices: fieldwork - the setting, policing a class consciouness, the interview, participant observation, partisanship and points of caution.