Labour and the Left in the 1980s

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

Explores the aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. This book also situates the crisis of the left in international terms as the socialist world began to collapse.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Mcwilliam Davis, Rohan Mcwilliam
• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Davis (Herausgeber), Rohan Mcwilliam (Herausgeber), McWilliam Rohan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.11.2017
• EAN: 9781526106438
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0643-8
• Seiten: 232
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Political Parties, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Political parties and party platforms