Manipulating Hegemony State Power, Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain

Drawing on neo-Gramscian theories of International Political Economy, this book explores the impact of the Marshall Plan on labour and government in Britain. Rather than the US imposing a 'politics of productivity' on an unwilling government, the centre-right of the Labour Party used the M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vickers, Rhiannon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2000, 2000
Series:International Political Economy Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Drawing on neo-Gramscian theories of International Political Economy, this book explores the impact of the Marshall Plan on labour and government in Britain. Rather than the US imposing a 'politics of productivity' on an unwilling government, the centre-right of the Labour Party used the Marshall Plan to achieve its own political ends. Manipulating Hegemony shows how the government was able to marginalise the left to create a pattern of state-labour politics that was to endure until the end of the 1970s
Physical Description:XVI, 185 p online resource
ISBN:9780333981818