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Hanging on by Your Fingernails
The Struggle at Lea Hall Colliery 1984-87

By Jon Williams & Liliane Jaddou
Foreword by Peter Heathfield
December 1987
Spokesman
ISBN: 0-85124-496-3[bookcover]
80 pages, illustrated
$9.50 paper original


This book documents the epic struggle waged by the 'minority' at Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley, Staffs., from the start of the strike in 1984 to the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987. A struggle in which the small 'minority' not only held solid for the twelve months of the strike, but also, by 'campaigning around every issue,' successfully beat off a challenge from the UDM.

Industrial Relations; History