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  • While British coal miners are often cast in the collective memory as traditionalists, the article reveals a more complex conception of identity. During the 1970s and 1980s, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) combined ideas of heroic masculinity with support for the workplace rights of women and ethnic minorities. 'Muscular masculinity' was used as a resource to further the opportunities of disadvantaged groups and to defend the miners' own interests, as is demonstrated with reference to the ›Grunwick‹ dispute of 1976-78 and the great miners' strike of 1984/85. The miners' prioritising of muscular masculinity did not go uncontested at the time. Yet it was not until the events of 1984/85 that the NUM’s cult of masculinity came to be seen as a cause of the miners' defeat and a problem for the British Left in general. Following a famous dictum by E.P. Thompson, the article argues that historical conceptions of masculinity should be measured by the standards of the time rather than the expectations of our present. (xsd:string)
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  • 2021 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 'Gladiators for Women'? The British Miners, Muscular Masculinity and the Struggle for Workplace Rights, 1977 to 1984/85 (xsd:string)
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  • In: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 18, 2021, 3, 510-534 (xsd:string)
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