Critical Labour Movement Studies – serie
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13 produkter
Interpreting the Labour Party
Av John Callaghan, Steven Fielding m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
371 kr
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Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement. The essays are written by contributors who have devoted many years to the study of the Labour …
Struggle for a Social Europe
Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring
Inbunden, 2006
1227 kr
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This book provides a detailed investigation and comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states: Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and their positions on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Several European-level trade union organisations are also examined. The focus of this …
Fightback!
Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, trumped by the left for a decade and weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, fought back organisationally to regain control of the party by 1985, producing an NEC supportive of Neil Kinnock and ready to expel Militant, …
Equality and the British Left
A study in progressive political thought, 1900–64
Av Ben Jackson
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to ‘equality’? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think …
Spanish Socialist Party and the Modernisation of Spain
Av Paul Kennedy
Inbunden, 2013
1123 kr
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This book considers the most electorally successful political party in Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which was in government for two of the three decades since it won office under Felipe González in 1982. Providing rich historical background, the book’s main focus is on the …
Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany
Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales 1890–1926
Inbunden, 2008
1227 kr
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This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners’ movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the south Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the public discourse of the trade unions and political parties as it was disseminated in local …
Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation
Av Andrew Gamble, Steve Ludlam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1188 kr
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With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world’s …
History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party
Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism
Inbunden, 2009
1123 kr
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This book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. Formed in 1924 and disbanded in 1987, the …
Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984–85
Av Jim Phillips
Inbunden, 2012
1227 kr
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This book analyses the 1984-5 miners’ strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike began in Scotland, with workers defending the moral economy of the coalfields, and resisting pit closures and …
history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party
Democratic socialism and sectarianism
Häftad, 2011
371 kr
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Available for the first time in paperback, this book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national …
Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain
How the personal got political
Häftad, 2011
371 kr
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Available in paperback for the first time, his book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists …
Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984–85
Av Jim Phillips
Häftad, 2014
371 kr
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This book, available at last in paperback, analyses the 1984–85 miners’ strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike began in Scotland, with workers defending the moral economy of the coalfields, and …
Paradoxes of Internationalization
British and German Trade Unions at Ford and General Motors 1967–2000
Inbunden, 2012
1132 kr
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Paradoxes of internationalization deals with British and German trade union responses to the internationalization of corporate structures and strategies at Ford and General Motors between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century. The book is based on research in numerous archives in …
