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Politics (Jackson (In electoral terms, thatcher is the most successful…
Politics
Jackson
In electoral terms, thatcher is the most successful leader of the modern era
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Public sector strikes 1978-9, callaghan gov lost all superior gov competence and so tories voted in
Unemployment rates 1.3 mil 1979, soared to over 3 mil in 1983 and stayed until 1987
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Miners strike 1984-5, Thatcher seen as socially divisive
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Eley
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Shift from skilled industrial labor to white collar work in services- preference to women and shift from old industrial manufacturing core to new high tech industries
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Phillips-Fein
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Central concerns- anti-communism, laissez-faire econmics and opposition to the CRM
Despite the opposition that the right faced, they succeeded in bringing about significant reforms in taxes, regulation, welfare and social policies.
Hall
Commonest response by the left to the shift to the right is that is was a response to the economic crisis, so Thatcherism was a corresponding political bedflow to a capitalist recession.
Lack of social democratic representation from the left, leads to a break down of support
Contradiction between the interests of the people and the interests of an interventionist capitalist state
Vernon
60s were a decade of liberation //70s had a generation who had experienced deindustrialization, rising unemployment, rising radicalism and police violence
year before anarchy in the UK was released, Thatcher was elected
Hobsbawm
Geographically, a c ago the working class was a collection of localized communities, but now they have split and all pursuing their own economic goal
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