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By: Jim Phillips

ISBN: 9780719096723
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Dianne Hayter

ISBN: 9780719072710
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability -- .


(Hardback)

By: Andrew Gamble

ISBN: 9780719075865
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book includes a very strong collection of original case studies addressing two key themes of the impact of neo-liberalism on union-state relations, and new patterns of resistance in strategic national and international alliances of unions with other social movements. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Aaron Edwards

ISBN: 9780719086380
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Jim Phillips

ISBN: 9780719086328
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Ben Jackson

ISBN: 9780719073076
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Newly available in paperback, the first comprehensive historical study of egalitarian ideas advocated by the British Left. Offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought, will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory and to anyone interested in contemporary political debates on progressive politics.


(Paperback)

By: Lucy Robinson

ISBN: 9780719086397
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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When the personal became political it changed British politics for ever. Gay men and the left, available in paperback for the first time, explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain. -- .


(Paperback)

By: John Callaghan

ISBN: 9780719067198
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Leighton James

ISBN: 9780719074974
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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 discourse of the trade unions and political parties in the two regions to reveal how they constructed organisational identities between 1890 and 1926.


(Hardback)

By: Paul Kennedy

ISBN: 9780719074134
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Covers the background to the current economic crisis in Spain, which has knock-on effects for the rest of the EU


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By: Andreas Bieler

ISBN: 9780719072529
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides a detailed comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states (Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden) and their positions on EMU. Several European-level trade union organisations are also investigated. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Aaron Edwards

ISBN: 9780719078743
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Thomas Fetzer

ISBN: 9780719080975
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .