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Labour and the Left in the 1980s
Contributor(s): Davis, Jonathan (Editor), McWilliam, Rohan (Editor)
ISBN: 1526106434     ISBN-13: 9781526106438
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $133.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
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
political leadership, economic alternatives, gay rights, the miners' strike, the Militant Tendency and the politics of race. The book also situates the crisis of the left in international terms as the socialist world began to collapse.

Tony Blair's New Labour disavowed the 1980s left, associating it with failure, but this volume argues for a more complex approach. Many of the causes it championed are now mainstream, suggesting that the time has come to reassess 1980s progressive politics, despite its undeniable electoral failures.
With this in mind, the contributors offer ground-breaking research and penetrating arguments about the strange death of Labour Britain.