Neoliberal Breakthrough: the Complicated Story of Britain, 1970s-2000s

Seminar Readings:

Wickham-Jones, Mark, ‘Neoliberalism and the Labour Party’, in Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.), The Neoliberal Age? Britain Since the 1970 (London: UCL Press, 2021), pp. 226-253.

Freeman, James, ‘Neoliberalism and Conservatism in Britain’, in Aled Davis, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, The Neoliberal Age, pp. 254-278

 Schofield, Camilla, Sudcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence, and Waters, Rob, ‘The Privatisation of Struggle`: Anti-Eacism in the Age of Enterprise’, in Aled Davis, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, The Neoliberal Age (…), pp. 1999-225.

 

Further Readings:

 Rochelle, DuFord, ‘Feminist Theory and Social Solidarity’, in A. Azmanova, J. Chamberlain (eds.), Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism: Critical Debates, Philosophy and Politics, seriesCritical Explorations 22, pp. 179-196 (online library)

Blair, Tony, Speech on Welfare Reform’, The Guardian (10 June 2002)

Edgerton, David, The Rise and the Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

 Edwards, Amy, ‘Financial Consumerism’: Citizenship, consumerism and capital ownership in the 1980s’, Contemporary British History 31 (2017), 210-29.

 DuFord, Nathan Rochelle, ‘Feminist Theory and Social Solidarity’, Capitalism, Socialism

Wolfgang Merkel, ‘Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?’ Zeitschrift fuer Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, vol. 9 (2015), pp. 49-60.

Hall, Stuart, Aspiration and Attitude: Reflection on Black Britain in the Nineties, New Formation 33 (1998), 38-46.

 Labour Party, Meet the Challenge; Make the Change (London: Labour Party, 1989)

 Reiss, Julian, Capitalism and Democracy: Allies, Rivals, orStrangers, in Mark D. White (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics (Oxford, …., pp. 316-336.

Slobodian, Quinn, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2018).

 Jackson, Ben, and Saunders (eds.), Making Thatcher’s Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp.1-22.

 Prasad, Monica, The Politics of Free Markets: the Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2017)

Shaw, Eric, the Labour Party since 1979 (London: Routledge, 1994).

 Streek, Wolfgang, ‘Comments on Wolfgang Merkel, ‘Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy’?

In, ibid. ‘How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System’ (London: Verso, 2017).

Tomlison, Jim, Britain since the 1970s: A transition to Neo-liberalism?,’ in Julian Hoppitt, Adrian Leonhard and Duncan Needham (eds.), Woddbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 20190), pp. 181-98.

 Tribe, Keith, Liberalism and Neoliberalism in Britain, 1930-1980, in pp. 68-97 in Mirowski, Philip and Dieter Plehwe (eds,), The Road from Mont Pelerin: the Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, (Cambridge, Mass, 2009), pp. 68-

 Water, Rob, Thinking Black Britain, 1964-1985 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)

Vinen, Richard, Thatcher’s Britain, The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era (London, Simon & Schuster, 2013)

 Vernon, James, Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

 Williamson, Adrian, Conservative Economic Policy-making and the Brith of Thatcherism, 1964-1979 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

 Davison, Sally, Shire, George, ‘Race, migration and neoliberalism: How Neoliberalism benefits from Discourses of Exclusion', Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 59 (2015): 81-95.