What About the Workers? - The Conservative Party Organised Working Class in British Politics

This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excluding the unions.

About the author

Andrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Summary

This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excluding the unions. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Taylor
• Assisted by: Richard Hayton (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781526103604
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0360-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: New Perspectives on the Right; Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies