Labour and the left in the 1980s. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Davis, Rohan McWilliam.
• Editors: Davis, Jonathan; McWilliam, Rohan
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General; Political Parties; British & Irish History; Socialism & Left-Of-Centre Democratic Ideologies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526106452; 1526106450
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.