TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION ONE -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- SECTION TWO -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- SECTION THREE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- SECTION FOUR -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary
In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into gender studies, industrial studies and women's history, have contributed to its apparent decline. Post-modernists' challenges to the concept of class, culture and community have done their damage. As a result "Labour his ..
