History A-Level
Industrial conflict and class tension
What Industrial conflict and class tension means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Industrial conflict and class tension
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The General Strike arose from coal miners' grievances over pay cuts and longer hours, alongside TUC solidarity.
Topics that use Industrial conflict and class tension
- Paper 3, Option 36.1: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928 - 5 Trades union militancy, 1915–27 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- 40-hour strike, 1919
- AEU and TGWU
- Black Friday, 1921
- Council of Action
- Media influence and public opinion
- Trade union decline and legal restrictions
- Triple Alliance
- Glasgow rent strike, 1915
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