Class, Culture and Community :: New Perspectives in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Labour History.

In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into gender studies, industr...

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Main Author: Baldwin, Anne
Other Authors: Ellis, Chris, Etheridge, Stephen, Laybourn, Keith, Pye, Neil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into gender studies, industrial studies and women's history, have contributed to its apparent decline. Post-modernists' challenges to the concept of class, culture and community have done their damage. As a result "Labour his ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443842853
1443842850

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