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Informationen zum Autor Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Social and Labour History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. An expert in the field of labour history, he is on the steering committee of the international research group, 'Labour and Globalization' based at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of Labour History Review , The Society for the Study of Labour History , Labour History and International Labor and Working Class History . He is the Editor of Lives of the Left, a series of labour biographies and co-editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography . Klappentext Since the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals, government, political party and polling organisation publications, as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to 2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class, gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough examination of the UK's main political parties and players, Kirk offers the reader a new and original understanding of how we reached the present situation. Vorwort An up-to-date and comprehensive study of the present political, societal and economic crisis in the United Kingdom, from the policy of austerity of the 2010s to the present day. Zusammenfassung Since the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals, government, political party and polling organisation publications, as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to 2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class, gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough examination of the UK’s main political parties and players, Kirk offers the reader a new and original understanding of how we reached the present situation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One - A Political Earthquake: The 2017 General Election and its Aftershocks Chapter Two - The Brexit Crisis, 2018-2019 Chapter Three - The Triumphs, Trials and Troubles of Boris Johnson, 2019-2021 Chapter Four - Scotland: Another Way is possible? Chapter Five: To the Present Bibliography Index ...
