post-war consensus Concepts

The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

by Grace Blakeley · 14 Oct 2020 · 82pp · 24,150 words

of a unique period of high growth, low unemployment and falling inequality. Yet almost as soon as it had been implemented, the contradictions of the post-war consensus began to emerge. Controls on capital mobility were undermined by the emergence of the unregulated eurodollar markets in the City of London.24 With the

A Short History of Progress

by Ronald Wright · 2 Jan 2004 · 225pp · 54,010 words

parts of the Third World.60 (Remember when we spoke not of a “war on terror” but of a “war on want”?) To undermine that post-war consensus and return to archaic political patterns is to walk back into the bloody past. Yet that is what the New Right has achieved since the

The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City

by Jack Brown · 14 Jul 2021 · 101pp · 24,949 words

premises and provide direct grants to the struggling regions in an attempt to stimulate economic growth.18 This second approach laid the groundwork for a post-war consensus in regional policy that would last for decades. London and the war The Second World War changed a great deal for London. Heavy bombing killed

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, and suburbs.21 The Distribution of Industry Act 1945, described as the ‘foundation of British regional policy’, then took up Barlow’s cause.22 Subsequent post-war consensus on regional policy was dominated by what Jerry White calls the ‘London-as-problem paradigm’.23 Successive governments placed limits on economic activity in London

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. All the while, London declined – and the UK economy did the same. Consensus over? Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979 saw an end to this post-war consensus, as previewed in the Conservative manifesto: ‘Strategies and plans cannot produce revival, nor can subsidies.’26 Displacing jobs to ‘inefficient’ areas was seen as unwise

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of decline. By 1990, regional inequalities had started to reopen significantly.30 New Labour, elected in 1997, did not implement a full return to the post-war consensus but took a ‘third way’ approach. London-wide government was restored from 2000, recast into a mayoral model in an attempt to avoid recreating the

SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis

by James. Davies · 15 Nov 2021 · 307pp · 88,085 words

, during the 1950s and 1960s, created widespread economic prosperity and growth. Whatever names have been given to this previous paradigm (‘social democracy’, ‘regulated capitalism’, ‘the post-war consensus’, ‘Keynesian capitalism’), they all point to a style of capitalism in which the state played a more central role in the economy than it does

Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics

by Matt Chorley · 8 Feb 2024 · 254pp · 75,897 words

day. He was, perhaps, the last man in Britain still wearing a hat. Times had changed. The 1970s had been a decade in which the post-war consensus and deference had crumbled. Thorpe was a symbol of the grubbiness that had infected a political Establishment who had brought industrial action, social unrest and

Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

by Colin Yeo; · 15 Feb 2020 · 393pp · 102,801 words

European Union was essentially an accident, and Brexit was the resulting backlash. This is not to say things cannot get worse, though. Since 2010, the post-war consensus of limiting immigration but also preventing and suppressing race discrimination has been quietly abandoned. The first part of that equation has entirely usurped the second

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words

a tactic to hold on to power? According to the former Tory chancellor Rab Butler, one of the key figures in establishing the so-called ‘post-war consensus’, the party’s mission was ‘to maintain the old order by appeasing and accommodating the progressive forces which threaten it’. Quintin Hogg, another of the

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Petroleum. Under Thatcher, the Conservatives were finally transformed in their image – and after her victory in 1979, both Labour and whatever was left of the post-war consensus were swept aside. A new consensus was in the making, and Labour would never look the same again. David Edgerton acidly refers to James Callaghan

The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It

by Stuart Maconie · 5 Mar 2020 · 300pp · 106,520 words

talented autodidact educated by the BBC, the local library and a moderately benevolent benefits system, Nigel Blackwell is a testament to the brilliance of the post-war consensus and the derided nanny state, a genuine native genius without entitlement or conceit.1 ‘My dad got me into local history as a kid. And

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felt uniqueness, love it rather than deny it in favour of a narcissistic self-regard. For the forty long years of the dismantling of the post-war consensus, playwright David Hare has been chronicling it all in a series of acclaimed ‘state of the nation’ plays. Early in 2019, he gave his cold

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when having helped save the world from the new Dark Age of Nazism we moved for a while into the broad sunlit uplands of the post-war consensus. Those few decades have been alternately mocked and romanticised but from here it’s hard not to see them as a Golden Age, the years

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

by Owen Jones · 14 Jul 2011 · 317pp · 101,475 words

Conservatives were defeated in two successive general elections in 1974, Joseph became one of the leaders of a new breed of Tory who rejected the post-war consensus of welfare capitalism that had been upheld by earlier Conservative governments. Instead, they wanted to curb union power, sell off state-owned industries and return

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

by Brett Christophers · 17 Nov 2020 · 614pp · 168,545 words

era only because they had been brought under state ownership a few decades earlier. Moreover, as Chris Rhodes and his co-authors have noted, a ‘ “post-war consensus” between the political parties supporting state involvement in industry remained until the 1970s’.3 Even then, they continue (citing David Parker’s ‘official history’ of