Thatcherism and the fall of coal
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Thatcherism and the fall of coal
Oxford University Press for the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-227) and index
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Description
The decline of the UK coal industry from the start of the Thatcher administration through those of Major and Blair is documented and analyzed here. Over that 20-year period employment in the industry fell by 95 per cent, the UK's reliance on coal shrank, and union power was demolished. The political agenda over two decades remained implacably anti-coal. Yet, as the author demonstrates, the actual process of decline was driven by a set of political and economic coincidences and by chance.
Table of Contents
- The arrival of Mrs Thatcher - confrontation postponed
- the great strike
- "turning British Coal into a business"
- electricity privatization and the coal crisis of October 1992
- the Coal Review and the settlement of March 1993
- the privatization of British Coal
- the privatized industry - unresolved problems
- final reflections.
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