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

Throughout the century British coal had receive increasingly costly and difficult to mine. Nationalization in 1948 had not neutered this. Indeed, there was a case for saying that lack of g all overnment investiture since that date had added to the problem. For some time Britain had been importing coal from abroad. With the exception of a few(prenominal) pits producing particular types of coal, British mines by the 1970s were running at loss. When Marg bet Thatcher became original Minister the first thing she wanted to do was limit heart and soul power. She felt that league power applied to nationalized industrial monopolies resulted in pathetic service at exorbitant cost to the taxpayers. She pointed to inefficient work practices, over employment and restrictive employment conditions such as the all union closed shop. The Thatcher government declared its unwillingness to put move on public money into an industry which had little chance of being fitting to recover its place in a competitive market.The policies of this government are clear to destroy the coal industry and the NUM Union leader Arthur Scargill. B...