The Labour question has been a very important factor in the history of British politics since the closing years of the nineteenth century. Since that time, governments have become more closely in the management and regulation of industry, the relief…
YOU CAN'T PICK AND CHOOSE TAKING HER DOWN: MAKING A PRISONER KNOWING HER PLACE; WOMEN'S RESPONSES TO PRISON GETTING OUT - BUT NOT GETTING AWA MOVING ON LOOKING FORWARD: POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Introduction: Harmony and Discord Economic Policy to 1991 Why the moderates lost Economic POlicy from 1980 to 1990 Trade-Union Reform, the Miners' Strike and Privatization Poverty Housing, Health and Education Means and Ends Foreign Policy Harmony or…
The State Debate Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas's Theory of the State Capital, Crisis and the State The Fordist Security State and New Social Movements Accumulation Strategies, State Forms and Hegemonic Projects State, Class Struggle and the…
"examines the course of the strike at a local and national level, tracing its origins and the road to confrontation. Extensive use is made of interviews with participants, TUC archives, contemporary records and special and regional studies"
"A unique and absorbing social document - a first hand account of the life and struggles of a working-class woman who became a leader of the Suffragette and Labour movements in the North of England"
"A Just Measure of Pain" returns to the moment in eighteenth century England when the modern penitentary and its ambitious legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows came to be replaced by the prison and the idea that the…
This study of English prisons from 1750 to their nationalization in 1877 is based on a detailed examination of the interplay between policy, administration and staffing. These issues are explored by drawing on a wide range of national and local…
1. Overview 2. Socio-economic structures 3. Ethnic identification and mobilisation 4. National identity, nationality and citicenship 5. Politics and public policy 6. Conclusion - chronology of events - resource and documentation centres -…
Contents: Part 1 Kidnapping for ransom 1. Kidnapping: a history 2. The snatch racket: the US in the thirties 3. Sardinia: October 1978 4. I sequestrabili: Italy in the seventies Part 2 Political kidnapping 5. The diplomat as hostage 6. The…
