Nine Days in May - Jon Schneer, at Heffers Bookshop

In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to lengthen their working day and cut their pay. This General Strike brought the country to a grinding halt, and for nine days, the world’s best organized working class confronted the world’s most powerful, and self-confident, government. And yet the outcome was never in doubt, for Britain’s most important trade-union leaders thought as Baldwin did, although they kept saying they were engaged in a wages dispute only. Really, they feared winning even more than they feared losing. InNine Days in May, award-winning author and historian Jonathan Schneer mines hitherto untapped archival sources to explain why and how the Strike came about, why and how it was waged and countered, why and how it ended.

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