SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF THE LEFT.
One of the reasons for Labour's electoral decline over the past twenty years has been the contraction of its social base. Labour has typically been strongest in the working class, among council tenants, and among union members. There is certainly some truth in this analysis of social change. But it...
| Publicado en: | Political Quarterly Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 364 - 378 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct-Dec87
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| Sumario: | One of the reasons for Labour's electoral decline over the past twenty years has been the contraction of its social base. Labour has typically been strongest in the working class, among council tenants, and among union members. There is certainly some truth in this analysis of social change. But it is easy to exaggerate the magnitude of the changes and to draw incorrect political implications from them. The expansion of professional and managerial jobs, and the contraction of skilled manual, continued unabated during the 1970s. |
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