Huckfield How Blair killed the co-ops

Reclaiming social enterprise from its neoliberal turn
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4974-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

A detailed examination of social enterprise development under New Labour, which, though rarely reported elsewhere, represented a major and deliberate political rupture with the wider Cooperative Movement, of the same order of political magnitude as Blair’s earlier repudiation of Clause Four of its Constitution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huckfield, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Theoretical foundations and conceptual interpretations for the third sector
4 1960s–1980s regeneration
5 New Labour, co-ops and social enterprise
6 Explanations
7 Conclusions
Postscript
Appendix 1: Timeline of main literature contributions and events in the UK, North America and mainland Europe
Appendix 2: Co-operatives and social enterprises

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leslie Huckfield is a Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University