The seven-month British national mining lockout of 1926 was one of the most important European industrial disputes of the twentieth century. It not only came to symbolize the defeat of the labor movement in the interwar years, but it also cast a long shadow over industrial relations in the mining industry and epitomized the predicament of British miners in the early decades of the century. Industrial Politics draws on new methodological perspectives that have emerged in recent labor studies in order to comprehensively survey this event at the national, local, and regional levels, and makes a significant contribution to the social and political history of the industrial working class.About the Author: John McIlroy is Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester. The author of numerous articles on industrial relations and labour history, his books include Trade Unions in Britain Today and The Permanent Revolution?: Conservative Law and the Trade Unions. He was an editor of British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1945-79 and Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography. He is a member of the editorial boards of Labour History Review, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, Historical Materialism and Revolutionary History.Alan Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University of Liverpool. His books include The Lanarkshire Miners: A Social History of their Trade Unions, 1775-1874 and the two-volume The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939. He co-edited Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910-47 and Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography. He is a former editor of Labour History Review and a longstanding member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Labour History.Keith Gildart is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Wolverhampton. A former miner, he is the author of North Wales Miners: A Fragile Unity, 1945-1996 and has recently been a Research Fellow at the University of York. He co-edits The Dictionary of Labour Biography.