What About the Workers?: The Conservative Party and the Organised Working Class in British Politics

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Andrew Taylor

What About the Workers?

The Conservative Party and the Organised Working Class in British Politics

Andrew Taylor

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Manchester University Press
01 May 2021

Social classes; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies

Series: New Perspectives on the Right

What about the Workers? explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excluding the unions.

The relationship between the Conservative Party and the organised working class is fundamental to the making of modern British politics. Industrialisation and urbanisation saw the emergence of democracy and class politics, symbolised by the development of trade unions, which assumed growing political significance. At the book's core is a puzzle: why, throughout its history, was the Conservative Party seemingly accommodating towards the organised working class? And why, in the space of a relatively few years in the 1970s and 1980s, did it abandon this heritage? In addressing these questions, the book argues that throughout its history the Conservative Party has faced a broad strategic choice with respect to the organised working class of either exclusion or inclusion. For much of its history, party leaders calculated that despite skepticism and hostility from the party, they had more to gain from inclusion. Notwithstanding, the organised working class was always regarded with suspicion.

By: Andrew Taylor
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 576g
ISBN: 9781526103604
ISBN 10: 1526103605
Series: New Perspectives on the Right
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 May 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield