Manipulating Hegemony

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. International Politics, Domestic Politics and the Marshall Plan

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4. The Marshall Plan

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5. The Scale and Impact of the Marshall Plan

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6. The Government/Union Alliance in Postwar Britain

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7. The Trade Union Response to the Marshall Plan

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

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9. The Anglo-American Council on Productivity

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

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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.

• economy
• government
• hegemony
• political economy
• politics
• state
• trade union
• Union
• British Politics

• Lecturer in Politics, University of Leeds, UK

  Rhiannon Vickers

Rhiannon Vickers is Lecturer in Politics at University of Leeds.

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