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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Manchester University Press,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: new histories of Labour and the left in the 1980s; PART I The crisis of the Labour Party; 1 Retrieving or re-imagining the past? The case of 'Old Labour', 1979-94; 2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s; 3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties; 4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s; PART II The British left in a global context; 5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika: Labour and the Soviet influence
- 6 The international context: end of an eraPART III Currents of the wider left; 7 Militant's laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the Thatcher Government; 8 'Fill a bag and feed a family': the miners' strike and its supporters; 9 'Race Today cannot fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s; Index
