{"product_id":"what-about-the-workers-the-conservative-party-and-the-organised-working-class-in-british-politics-9781526103604","title":"What About the Workers?: The Conservative Party","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. The organised working class, though always a minority, was perceived by Conservatives as a challenge; condemned as threatening property, and as harbingers of socialism. Many trade union members dismissed the Conservatives as the bosses’ party, ever-ready to restrict the unions’ freedom in the interests of profit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, at the book’s core is a puzzle: why, throughout its history, was the Conservative Party seemingly accommodating towards the organised working class that it ideology, social composition, and the preferences of most Conservatives would seem to permit? And why, in the space of a relatively few years in the 1970s and 1980s, did it abandon this heritage? Taylor argues that throughout its history, the Conservative Party has faced a broad strategic choice with respect to the organised working class: either inclusion or exclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe portrayal of the character on the front cover encapsulates the concept of the ‘bloody-minded’ British worker - an attitude that encapsulates a determinedly ‘conservative’ attitude to defending rights and influence \u003cbr\u003egained during the twentieth century and which led to the reaction against ‘union power’ in the 1960s and 70s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 A strong taste for the despotism of numbers?\u003cbr\u003e2 Peace and good will?\u003cbr\u003e3 We shall get their help\u003cbr\u003e4 War, conservatism and union power\u003cbr\u003e5 Milk and water socialism?\u003cbr\u003e6 The smack of firm government?\u003cbr\u003e7 Confronting the British disease?\u003cbr\u003e8 The enemy within\u003cbr\u003eConclusions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040974602583,"sku":"9781526103604","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526103604.jpg?v=1750948459","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-about-the-workers-the-conservative-party-and-the-organised-working-class-in-british-politics-9781526103604","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}