The Miners Strike 1984 Essay -- British Coal, Margaret Thatcher vs Tra

Throughout the century British coal had become more and more costly and difficult to mine. Nationalization in 1948 had not altered this. Indeed, there was a case for saying that lack of government investment since that visualize had added to the problem. For some time Britain had been importing coal from abroad. With the exception of few pits producing picky types of coal, British mines by the 1970s were running at loss. When Margaret Thatcher became Prime attend the first thing she wanted to do was limit union power. She tangle that union power applied to nationalized industrial monopolies resulted in poor proceeds at exorbitant cost to the taxpayers. She pointed to inefficient work practices, over habit and restrictive employment conditions such as the all union closed in(p) shop. The Thatcher government declared its unwillingness to put further ordinary money into an industry which had little chance of being able to come up its place in a competitive market.The policies of this government are can to destroy the coal industry and the NUM Union leader Arthur Scargill. B...