Manipulating Hegemony: State Power, Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain

by Rhiannon Vickers

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333772849
• ISBN13: 9780333772843
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"