The past in the present: Reflections on coal mining and the miners’ strike 1984-85
Sat 2 Mar 2024 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Bute Building, King Edward VII Ave, Cardiff, CF10 3NB
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Fis Mawrth nesaf, byddwn yn cydnabod 40 mlynedd ers streic y glowyr mewn cynhadledd wedi’i threfnu gan Sefydliad Ymchwil Cymdeithasol ac Economaidd a Data Cymru (WISERD).
Bydd y gynhadledd yn dechrau gyda dangosiad o ffilm o’r enw ‘Breaking Point’, a wnaed ac a fydd yn cael ei chyflwyno gan KJell-Ake Andersson, cyfarwyddwr mawr ei barch o Sweden. Gwnaed y ffilm yn Oakdale ym mis Chwefror 1985 wrth i’r streic ddechrau cael ei dorri, ac mae’n canolbwyntio ar sut mae undod yn cael ei gynnal, barn swyddogion y gyfrinfa, a gweithgareddau’r grŵp cefnogi menywod.
Bydd dwy sesiwn lawn a chyfres o wyth cyfarfod panel. Mae’r cyfarfodydd llawn yn canolbwyntio ar ‘Menywod, lle a chymuned yn y streic a heddiw’ a ‘Y diwedd ar lo: strwythur economi wedi’i datgarboneiddio’. Bydd y trafodaethau panel yn archwilio’r streic mewn cyd-destun hanesyddol ac yn ystyried materion perchnogaeth gyhoeddus, trefniadaeth undebau llafur a strategaeth streic, adeiladu undod, rôl y wladwriaeth a’r cyfryngau mewn cysylltiadau diwydiannol, atgofion o’r streic, y newid yn strwythur dosbarth a hynodrwydd y meysydd glo.
Bydd y gynhadledd yn arddangos baneri Undeb Genedlaethol y Glowyr, ynghyd â lluniau o waith codi glo a’r streic.
Bydd y gynhadledd yn cynnwys cast serol o siaradwyr o’r academi a rhai yn cymryd rhan uniongyrchol yn y mudiad undebau llafur yn 1984 ac yn y byd cyfoes.
Next March the 40th anniversary of the coal miners’ strike will be marked with a conference organised by the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD).
The conference will begin with a showing of the film “Breaking Point” made and introduced by the acclaimed Swedish director KJell-Ake Andersson. The film was made in Oakdale in February 1985 as the strike was beginning to break and focuses on ways in which solidarity is maintained, the views of the Lodge officials and the activities of the women’s support group.
There will be two plenary sessions and a series of eight panel meetings. The plenaries focus on ‘Women, place and community in the strike and today’ and ‘The End of Coal – Contours of a Decarbonised Economy’. The panel discussions will examine the strike in a historical context and consider issues of public ownership, trade union organisation and strike strategy, building solidarity, the role of the state and the media in industrial relations, memories of the strike, the changing class structure and the distinctiveness of the coalfields.
The conference will feature banners from NUM lodges around the South Wales coalfield and photographic representation of coal mining and the strike.
The conference features a stellar cast of speakers from both the academy and those directly involved in the unions both in 1984 and today.
Location
Bute Building, King Edward VII Ave, Cardiff, CF10 3NB