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Vous trouverez ci-dessous le programme (également disponible en ligne) de la journée d’étude “From 1984 to 2024: industrial disputes and social movements in the UK since the Great Miners’ Strike”, qui aura lieu à Sciences Po Lille le mercredi 6 mars 2024, à l’occasion du quarantième anniversaire du début de la grève des mineurs britanniques de 1984-1985. L’entrée à la JE (Amphi Louise Michel 1.16, Sciences Po Lille, 9 rue Angellier, 59000 Lille) est libre sur inscription.
Cette journée est associée à la préparation d’un numéro de la Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique sur le même thème. L’Appel à Contributions pour ce numéro est toujours ouvert et disponible ici; les articles sont attendus pour le 31 mai 2024. Les intentions d’écriture sont à envoyer à clemence.fourton@sciencespo-lille.eu et marc.lenormand@univ-montp3.fr.
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Please find below the programme of a one-day conference to be held in Sciences Po Lille on Wednesday, March 6th 2024. The conference is entitled “From 1984 to 2024: industrial disputes and social movements in the UK since the Great Miners’ Strike” and will take place on the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of this major industrial dispute. Attendance to the conference (Amphi Louise Michel 1.16, Sciences Po Lille, 9 rue Angellier, 59000 Lille) is free but registration is mandatory.
The conference is a prelude to a special issue of the French Journal of British Studies on the same theme. The Call for Papers for this issue is still open and can be read in full here; papers are expected for May 31st, 2024. Titles and abstracts should be sent to clemence.fourton@sciencespo-lille.eu & marc.lenormand@univ-montp3.fr.
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Programme of the one-day conference
From 1984 to 2024 : industrial disputes and social movements in the UK since the Great Miners’ Strike
March 6th, 2024, Sciences Po Lille
8:30-9:00: Introduction
¤ Clémence FOURTON, Sciences Po Lille, CECILLE
¤ Marc LENORMAND, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA
9:00-11:00: Session 1: Industrial Action Then and Now: Historicizing Collective Action in the UK
¤ David LYDDON, Keele University (United Kingdom): “The long view on UK strikes: 1984-2024 in historical perspective”
¤ Anne BEAUVALLET, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, CAS (France): ‘’English teachers striking over pay? The July 2023 pay rise in the long shadow of the 1980s’’
¤ Clémence FOURTON, Sciences Po Lille, CECILLE (France): “Trade-union strategies under neoliberalism or the 2022-23 British strike spiral”
11:00-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:35: Session 2: Figures of the Miner: Change and Stability in Discourse About and Representations Of the Working-Class
¤ Jemina PARKER, University of Kent / Université de Lille (United Kingdom / France): “1984-85 Kent Miners’ Strike and the nation: from the figure of the worker to the figure of the migrant’’
¤ Shelly ASQUITH, University of Leeds (United Kingdom) : “Press Reporting on Strike Action”
12:35-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-16:00: Session 3: Beyond the Workplace: Echoes, Effects and Limits of Industrial Action in British Communities
¤ Eve BLAIN, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom): “Housing, Community, and the Miners’ Strike 1984-5 in North East England”
¤ Sebastian BERG, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) : “From Municipal Socialism to Community Wealth Building”
¤ Marc LENORMAND, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA (France) : “The 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike and the rise of social movement unionism”
16:00: Conclusions