{"product_id":"the-british-left-and-the-defence-economy-rockets-guns-and-kidney-machines-1970-83-9781526144010","title":"The British Left and the Defence Economy:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe British Left and the Defence Economy\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating study that further demonstrates the centrality and power of the warfare state in post-war British politics.'  \u003cbr\u003eTom Kelsey, \u003ci\u003eTwentieth Century British History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 The left and the defence economy in the early Cold War\u003cbr\u003e2 Guns before butter: Labour’s defence review\u003cbr\u003e3 Taking on the defence economy\u003cbr\u003e4 Workers and the defence economy: the case of Lucas Aerospace\u003cbr\u003e5 Post-material protest? Peace activism and the defence economy\u003cbr\u003e6 The defence economy, the left and the ‘second Cold War’\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041005175127,"sku":"9781526144010","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526144010.jpg?v=1750948574","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-british-left-and-the-defence-economy-rockets-guns-and-kidney-machines-1970-83-9781526144010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}