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2Prepared in the offices of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army and the Director of Communications of the Air Force" ; Vol.3,no.1 erroneously numbered v.2,no.2 ; Successively issued by: Military Amateur Radio System; Military Affiliate Radio System ; Mode of access: Internet.

Summary in English. Examines the causes and the social, economic, and political implications of the conflict.

What caused the Thatcher government to provoke the British miners and their union, the NUM, into a year-long conflict ? The authors first analyse the mechanisms which led to a break in the consensus within the mining industry about national energy choices. Then, through a detailed study of the strike and of the negotiating positions of both sides, they show why no compromise could be achieved. The strike has undoubtedly been a failure for the defensive unionism symbolised by Mr. Arthur Scargill's union ; yet, Mrs Thatcher does not seem to have drawn from that failure all the political benefits which she had expected.