Eduqas GCSE History · C100
Component 1, Component 2
Revise: Industrial decline and political crisis in the 1970sYorkshire miners’ leader Arthur Scargill organised thousands of flying pickets: strikers who travelled to other sites to strengthen picketing and block coal supplies. This disrupted deliveries to power stations. The government had not built up adequate coal stocks for winter demand, leaving it vulnerable to shortages.
- Revise: The Stuttering Seventies
A worker who travels to another workplace during an industrial dispute to encourage support for a strike or prevent supplies from moving.