Global Capitalism and National Decline: The Thatcher Decade in Perspective

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Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Long Waves of Class Formation -- Class Formation in the World System -- The Temporal Dimension of Class Formation -- Class Formation and the Political Articulation of Class Interests -- Capital Fractions -- Concepts of Control -- Generations in the Bourgeoisie -- 2 The Rise and Fall of British Hegemony -- The Making of the British Class Structure -- The Rise of British Capitalism -- The Nature of the British State -- The Logic of Priority -- The Class Structure of the Pax Britannica -- The Heyday of British Industrial Capital -- The Aristocratization of the Bourgeoisie -- Britain's Imperial Decline -- British Foreign Investment -- The Incorporation of the Labour Movement -- The Downfall of the Liberal Party -- Towards the General Strike -- 3 Between New Deal and Fascism: Depression, War and Transition in Britain -- The Turn to Protectionism -- Corporate Liberalism in the 1930s -- The Strength of the State Monopoly Bourgeoisie -- The Structure of the British Economy During the 1930s -- The Declining Industries -- The Fordist Industries -- The Balance of Depression -- The Long Decline: Determination vs. Contingency -- 4 The Redefinition of Britain's Global Position 1941-73 -- Global Fordism -- Postwar Reconstruction of the Global Order and the Birth of the 'Special Relation' -- Britain's Relationship with Europe -- Early European Integration Projects -- Suez and the Special Relationship -- The Move Towards Europe -- The World Market and the British Political Economy in the 1950s -- The Multinationalization of the British Economy -- The Effects of City Dominance for British Monetary Policy -- 5 The Postwar Fordist Offensives.