The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo-poulantzasian Analysis - Historical Materialism Volume 107

In The Thatcherite Offensive, Alexander Gallas provides a class-centered, Neo-Poulantzan political analysis of Thatcherism.

List of contents

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: THATCHERISM AND THE NEO-POULANTZASIAN APPROACH

1. The Hall-Jessop Debate
2. Neo-Poulantzasian Political Analysis

PART II: CLASS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN, 1977–99

3. Method of Presentation
4. Pre-history: Britain in Crisis (–1977)
5. Emergence: A New Agenda for the Conservative Party (1977–9)
Case Study: Preparing for Government – Conservative Policy Papers from 1977
6. Material Gains: Conducting Class Politics by Stealth (1979–84)
7. Instability and Confrontation (1984–8)
Case Study: Attacking the Union Movement – The Miners’ Strike
Case Study: Dividing the Nation – The ‘Big Bang’ and the Liberalisation of Financial Markets
8. Stabilisation: Entrenching the Advance (1988–92)
9. Erosion: Losing Control (1992–9)

PART III: THE AFTERMATH

10. The Consequences of Thatcherism
11. New Labour and the Thatcherite Legacy

Conclusion
References
Index

About the author

Alexander Gallas, PhD (2010), Lancaster University, is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Kassel. He is editor of the Global Labour Journal and regularly writes on topics such as the state, class, labour relations and British Politics. His publications include Reading Poulantzas (Merlin, 2011).

Summary

In The Thatcherite Offensive, Alexander Gallas provides a class-centered, Neo-Poulantzan political analysis of Thatcherism.

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Product details

• Authors: Alexander Gallas, Gallas Alexander
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2017
• EAN: 9781608466979
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-697-9
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
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