The late 1960s to the mid‐1980s in Britain was a period of intense industrial struggle, with strike levels at their highest since the 1920s. Concerns surrounding trade union power became central to broader anxieties about British ‘decline’ and ‘crisis’. These issues took a spatial form in conflicts around the nature of the picket line. This article discusses the picket line in 1970s Britain in the context of recent debates on the geographies of violence, particularly in relation to questions of class and property, and the mutually constitutive temporalities of structural and direct violence. Rather than the diffuse processes of an abstract capitalism, I argue for greater attention to be paid to class conflict in shaping experiences and epistemologies of violence. This article therefore places more emphasis on agency in the production of violence than has been prevalent in recent debates in geography. Drawing on extensive archival research, the article focuses on three key disputes in this period. Building on work in labour geography, it explores how the assertive working‐class presence of mass pickets were portrayed as violent through an account of the miners’ strike in 1972. It then considers a similar process in relation to flying pickets during the 1972 builders’ dispute, emphasising the threat of a politicised working‐class mobility. Finally, the article considers the coercive state response in the violent policing of the picket line during the 1976‐8 Grunwick dispute. The radical right‐wing project of neoliberalism emerged in part as a solution to the perceived threat of the labour movement; critical to its success and consolidation was challenging the ‘enemy within’ of militant trade unionism. These violent class struggles around picketing in the 1970s, I argue, are crucial for understanding the long‐term, structural violence of neoliberalism.

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阶级斗争和暴力的空间政治：1970 年代英国的纠察线

1960 年代末至 1980 年代中期是英国工业斗争激烈的时期，罢工水平达到 1920 年代以来的最高水平。对工会权力的担忧成为对英国“衰落”和“危机”的广泛焦虑的核心。这些问题在围绕纠察线性质的冲突中采取了空间形式。本文在最近关于暴力地理的辩论的背景下讨论了 1970 年代英国的纠察线，特别是关于阶级和财产的问题，以及结构性暴力和直接暴力的相互构成的时间性。而不是抽象资本主义的扩散过程，我主张在塑造暴力的经验和认识论时更多地关注阶级冲突。因此，与最近的地理学辩论中普遍存在的情况相比，本文更强调产生暴力的能动性。本文通过广泛的档案研究，重点关注这一时期的三个主要争议。以劳工地理学的工作为基础，它通过对 1972 年矿工罢工的描述，探讨了工人阶级自信的大规模纠察队如何被描述为暴力。然后，它考虑了与 1972 年建筑工人罢工期间的飞行纠察队有关的类似过程。争论，强调政治化的工人阶级流动的威胁。最后，本文考虑了 1976-8 年格伦威克争端期间对纠察线的暴力执法中的强制性国家反应。新自由主义的激进右翼计划的出现部分是为了解决工人运动的威胁；其成功和巩固的关键在于挑战激进的工会主义的“内部敌人”。我认为，1970 年代围绕纠察的这些暴力阶级斗争对于理解新自由主义的长期结构性暴力至关重要。