The British Left and the Defence Economy

Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970-83

The British Left and the Defence Economy
Keith Mc Loughlin
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h234 x 156mm - 248pg
29 Mar 2022 UK
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9781526144010
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Forty years before COVID-19, socialists in Britain campaigned for workers to have the right to make ' socially useful' products, from hospital equipment to sustain the NHS to affordable heating systems for the impoverished elderly. This movement held one thing responsible above all else for the nation' s problems: the burden of defence spending. In the middle of the Cold War, the left put a direct challenge to the defence industry, the Labour government and trade unions. The response it received revealed much about a military-industrial state that prioritised the making and exporting of arms for political favour and profit. Looking at peace activism from the early 1970s to Labour' s landslide defeat in the 1983 general election, this book examines the conflict over the cost of Britain' s commitment to the Cold War and asserts that the wider left presented a comprehensive and implementable alternative to the stark choice between making weapons and joining the dole queue.
Keith McLoughlin is a Lecturer at the University of Bristol
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526144010
Published: 29 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 248

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