ABSTRACT
‘The activity of politics arises from the basic human problem of diversity’. K. Millett, in her text, ‘Sexual Politics’, illuminates this much broader definition when she speaks of politics as being about power relationships, sexual ‘power relationships’. Miners are regarded as the ultimate example in terms of knowing where their industrial and political interests lie. One of the major aspects of politicisation is, of course, political participation. Political participation is linked to the notion of democracy. The study of voting behaviour constitutes a very interesting area of political science. A further debate concerns whether or not apathy is, in fact, a political act. On a positive note, the literature, focusing as it does upon class imagery and studies of working class communities, aids our understanding of politicisation partly because it illuminates that for any politicisation to have taken place at all during the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike is a commendable factor.
