Goodbye to the Working Class Social Change, Incompetence and Sleaze Push Labour to the Brink.

After 1979, Labour lost eight of the next eleven general elections. Working-class voters deserted, starting in 1970 when widespread abstention began, and the Conservatives won a majority of the working-class vote in 2019. Brexit was a consequence, and not the cause, of these massive changes._x000D_T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Race, Reg, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Conrad Press, The, 2021.
Temas:
Labour Party (Great Britain) > History > 20th century.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
1900-1999
Working class > Great Britain > History.
Politics and government
Working class
Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and credits
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Long View
  • A Homogeneous Country
  • Decline of Class
  • Voting Against your Class
  • Middle Class Takeover
  • Parliamentary Dominance
  • Bureaucracy no Longer in Control
  • Labour's Approach to Capitalism
  • Internal Revolts
  • Credibility and Authority
  • CHAPTER 1
  • MANCHESTER IN THE HIGH NOON OF BUTSKELLISM
  • My family and Other Workers
  • The Quakers
  • No Social Contact
  • Not Noticing
  • Newton Heath
  • Across the Mersey
  • Accelerating Decline
  • The Fading of the Working Class
  • The Politics of Croslandism
  • Profumo
  • The Real Manchester
  • Escaping from the Narrow World
  • CHAPTER 2
  • GLAD CONFIDENT MORNING AND AFTER: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW MIDDLE CLASS
  • Templeman
  • First Contact
  • Unpaid Labour
  • A Long History of Failure
  • Decisive Events
  • The Great Change
  • Making it Stick
  • The New Middle Class: First Stirrings
  • Local Action Works Locally
  • but Only Locally
  • CHAPTER 3
  • THE 1970s BREAKDOWN OF KEYNESIANISM
  • Jobs
  • Industrial Unionism that Wasn't
  • The Deaths Column
  • Beginning of the End
  • Labour's Response
  • The Developing Crisis
  • Based on Rubbish Data
  • The Pivotal Point of Post-War Politics
  • NUPE's Engagement Plan
  • The National Minimum Wage
  • The Endless Problem of Wage Control
  • The Statutory National Minimum Wage Emerges
  • 1974 and All That
  • 5% of Bugger All is Bugger All
  • Going Outside the TUC Box
  • Government Strategy Implodes
  • Government Nonsense
  • Callaghan and Healey Make the Jump
  • Reaction and Counter Reaction
  • Crunch Time: the Winter of 1978-79
  • Testing the Temperature of the Water and Heating It Up at the Same Time
  • Failures of Leadership
  • Biggest Wage Shock in Modern History
  • The Powerful Do What They Can
  • 1.6 Million on Strike
  • Going to the Top
  • Fisher Fails to Organise, Callaghan Digs In
  • Why This was Pivotal
  • PLATE SET A
  • CHAPTER 4
  • WORKING IN PARLIAMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REBEL ALLIANCE
  • Getting Started
  • The Patch
  • The PLP
  • Elitism and Control
  • The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy
  • Revolts and Structural Change
  • CLPD, the Original Form
  • Open Revolt for the First Time
  • Special Conference: the Irony of Victory
  • Slow Motion Train Wreck
  • No One in Charge
  • The Absent Issue
  • Hard Graft: Multiple Roles
  • Policy Development
  • Low Pay
  • Hospital Closures and Public Health
  • The Black Report
  • Abortion
  • Women's Rights and the Outrageous Attitude of Some Labour MPs
  • Dealing with the Sex Industry
  • and the F-Word
  • The Forgotten History of Women's Rights Legislation
  • Abducted Children and 'Seema's Laws'
  • Low Pay and Public Service Issues Rumble on
  • Stasis and Indolence
  • The 1982 Wage Dispute
  • The Economy and the Move to Deregulation, Unemployment and a Smaller State
  • Social Security Front Line
  • Deflation and Sod the Consequences: Learning to Win Elections with Mass Unemployment

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