Labour and the left in the 1980s /

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about polit...

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Other Authors: Davis, Jonathan Shaw (Editor), McWilliam, Rohan (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
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505 0 |a <P><i>Foreword by Peter Tatchell</i><br>Introduction: new histories of Labour and the left in the 1980s -- Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam<br><br>Part I: The crisis of the Labour Party<br>1 Retrieving or re-Imagining the past? The case of 'Old Labour', 1979-94 -- Eric Shaw <br>2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s -- Martin Farr <br>3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties -- Paul Bloomfield <br>4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s -- Richard Carr <br><br>Part II: The British Left in a global context<br>5 Neil Kinnock's <i>perestroika</i>: Labour and the Soviet influence -- Jonathan Davis <br>6 The international context: end of an era -- John Callaghan <br><br>Part III: Currents of the Wider Left<br>7 Militant's laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the Thatcher government -- Neil Pye<br>8 'Fill a Bag and Feed a Family': the miners' strike and its supporters -- Maroula Joannou <br>9 '<i>Race Today </i>cannot fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s -- Robin Bunce <br>Index</p> 
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