General Strike, Great Britain, 1926

Written by Keith Laybourn, this book examines the main debates about the causes, events & consequences of the General Strike of 1926. He draws on diaries, original documents & illustrations to show the changing attitudes of the parties concerned.

At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. This book draws on a variety of sources and offers readers a 21st-century lens through which to see the moment in the 1920s, when the British state seemed vulnerable to an a...