Labour and the left in the 1980s (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Davis, Jonathan; Mcwilliam, Rohan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526106452
• Artikelnr.: 57471887

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Anglia Ruskin University Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Peter Tatchell Introduction: new histories of Labour and the
left in the 1980s - Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam Part I: The crisis
of the Labour Party 1 Retrieving or re-Imagining the past? The case of 'Old
Labour', 1979-94 - Eric Shaw 2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s -
Martin Farr 3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties - Paul
Bloomfield 4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the
idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s - Richard Carr
Part II: The British Left in a global context 5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika
: Labour and the Soviet influence - Jonathan Davis 6 The international
context: end of an era - John Callaghan Part III: Currents of the Wider
Left 7 Militant's laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the
Thatcher government - Neil Pye 8 'Fill a Bag and Feed a Family': the
miners' strike and its supporters - Maroula Joannou 9 'Race Today cannot
fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s - Robin Bunce Index