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Manipulating Hegemony

State Power, Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Rhiannon Vickers

    1. Lecturer in Politics, University of Leeds, UK

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 1-5

  3. International Politics, Domestic Politics and the Marshall Plan

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 6-18

  4. The Marshall Plan

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 19-38

  5. The Scale and Impact of the Marshall Plan

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 39-53

  6. The Government/Union Alliance in Postwar Britain

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 54-77

  7. The Trade Union Response to the Marshall Plan

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 78-91

  8. The Marshall Plan and the Split in the International Trade Union Movement

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 92-111

  9. The Anglo-American Council on Productivity

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 112-131

  10. State Power, Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain

    • Rhiannon Vickers
    Pages 132-139

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 140-185
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Drawing on neo-Gramscian theories of International Political Economy, this book explores the impact of the Marshall Plan on labour and government in Britain. Rather than the US imposing a 'politics of productivity' on an unwilling government, the centre-right of the Labour Party used the Marshall Plan to achieve its own political ends. Manipulating Hegemony shows how the government was able to marginalise the left to create a pattern of state-labour politics that was to endure until the end of the 1970s.

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  • Lecturer in Politics, University of Leeds, UK

    Rhiannon Vickers

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Rhiannon Vickers is Lecturer in Politics at University of Leeds.

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