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

• Assisted by: Richard Hayton (Editor)
• Authors: Andrew Taylor
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.04.2021
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781526103604
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0360-4
• Pages: 280
• Series: New Perspectives on the Right; Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Governance, Britain, Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, conservative, Conservatism, Trade Unions, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Industrial Relations, working class, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Conservative Party, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements, Class Politics