Labour and the left in the 1980s - Hardcover

 
9781526106438: Labour and the left in the 1980s
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526106434 ISBN 13: 9781526106438
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.

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Jonathan Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Anglia Ruskin University Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University

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Why did the British Labour Party and the wider left fail to defeat Thatcherism in the 1980s? Has the time come to view the 1980s left in new ways? This pioneering volume is the first to explore progressive politics in the decade that profoundly shaped the way we live today.

This was the era of Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Tony Benn, the Militant Tendency, the miners’ strike, The Boys from the Blackstuff and tabloid attacks on the 'loony left'. The political failures of this period led Labour to spend the years from 1979 to 1997 in the political wilderness and forced the party to remake itself in the form of Tony Blair's New Labour. However, this volume argues that the 1980s was in fact a very creative time for the left, which championed feminism, racial equality, environmentalism and gay rights. Causes that were once associated with the counter-culture became mainstream. If the right won the economic arguments, the left helped set the social and moral agenda of the twenty-first century. Leading scholars illuminate the conflicts over ideas, leadership and political identity as neo-liberalism challenged the social democratic order.

The book contains a foreword by iconic political activist Peter Tatchell, who reflects on the struggles of those years and their relevance for politics today. Labour and the Left in the 1980s will be read by all interested in modern British politics and history and by anyone concerned with the future of progressive ways of living.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526106434
ISBN 13 
9781526106438
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
230
Herausgeber
Davis Jonathan, Mcwilliam Rohan
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