Davis / Unknown / McWilliam Labour and the left in the 1980s

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0644-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Davis, Jonathan

McWilliam, Rohan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Peter Tatchell
Introduction: new histories of Labour and the left in the 1980s – Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam

Part I: The crisis of the Labour Party
1 Retrieving or re-Imagining the past? The case of 'Old Labour', 1979–94 – Eric Shaw
2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s – Martin Farr
3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties – Paul Bloomfield
4 Responsible capitalism: Labour’s industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s – Richard Carr

Part II: The British Left in a global context
5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika: Labour and the Soviet influence – Jonathan Davis
6 The international context: end of an era – John Callaghan

Part III: Currents of the Wider Left
7 Militant’s laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the Thatcher government – Neil Pye
8 ‘Fill a Bag and Feed a Family': the miners’ strike and its supporters – Maroula Joannou
9 'Race Today cannot fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s – Robin Bunce
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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