Coal Strike!

On this week’s edition of WINGS, Elena McMaster of Women on the Line interviews writer, union activist, and feminist Lynn Beaton about women of the mining village Blidworth in Nottinghamshire during the brutally repressed miners strike of the 1980s.

Beaton’s 1985 book on the issue, Shifting Horizons, can now be read online at: http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/beaton/shifting-horizons/

Credits:

Produced by Elena McMaster for Women on the Line, the national women’s program of Australia, at 3CR in Melbourne. Adaptation for WINGS by Frieda Werden.


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