Labour Party Since 1979 Crisis and Transformation

Eric Shaw looks at the development to the Labour party from 1979, the beginning of Thatcher's period of office, to the present. He traces the deepening crisis in the party during the first part of the Conservative government and looks at the ideological changes that led the party so close to winning from '83 to '87, and at the 1987 Policy Review, considering whether it succeeded in its aim of developing a new model of social democracy. The book discusses the weaknesses of Labour's 1992 campaign and looks at the party's chances for the future, exploring basic questions of identity, purpose and appeal. The book emphasises the importance of Labour's changing attitude to Europe, from extreme scepticism in the early and mid-1980s, to the Party's post-87 incarnation as a European-style Social Democratic party.Shaw, Eric is the author of 'Labour Party Since 1979 Crisis and Transformation' with ISBN 9780415056151 and ISBN 0415056152.