Abstract
The Durham Miners Gala is an annual event at which the associated branches of the Durham Miners Association carry their banners to a rally held in the city of Durham. The imagery displayed on those banners is representative of the class struggle to create a trade union that would represent and protect individuals and communities against the vagaries of the unbridled capitalism of the nineteenth century. In this way a tradition (and culture) was created not by social or political elites, but developed from ground level to counteract attempts to subsume them into a dominant ideology that saw them as little more than serfs.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 147-163 |
Journal | International Labor and Working-Class History |
Volume | 76 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |