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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2000, 2000
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Series: | International Political Economy Series
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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 |
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Physical Description: | XVI, 185 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9780333981818 |