A01=Neville Kirk
Anthony Seldon
Author_Neville Kirk
Boris Johnson
Brexit
by-election
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chancellor
Conservative
Daily Mail
David Cameron
economy
Ed Davey
election
energy
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eq_business-finance-law
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financial crash
Graham Brady
Great Britain
Habermas
Harold Wilson
Jeremy Corbyn
John Major
Keir Starmer
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Margaret Thatcher
Nicola Sturgeon
parliament
price cap
referendum
resignation
Scotland
shadow minister
SNP
Teresa May
Tiverton
Tony Blair
Tory
vote
voters
Product details
- ISBN 9781350374515
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 160 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 05 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals, government, political party and polling organisation publications, as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to 2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class, gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough examination of the UK’s main political parties and players, Kirk offers the reader a new and original understanding of how we reached the present situation.
Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Social and Labour History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. A leading figure in the field of labour history, he has published extensively in the areas of modern British history, the comparative history of Britain, the USA and Australia and transnational history. A longstanding member of the UK Society for the Study of Labour History, he has served on the editorial and advisory boards of the journals Labour History Review (UK), Labour History (Australia), Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (USA), International Labor and Working-class History (USA), and Labour/Le Travail (Canada).
