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The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics
Simon Winlow
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This book is the first to offer an accessible and uncompromising look at the English Defence League (EDL). It aims to alter thinking about working-class politics and the rise of right-wing nationalism in the de-industrialised and decaying towns and cities of England. The rise of the right among the working class, the authors claim, is inextricably connected to the withdrawal of the political left from traditional working-class communities, and the left's refusal to advance the economic interests of those who have suffered most from neoliberal economic restructuring. Incisive, contentious and boundary-breaking, it uses the voices of men and women who ... Read more
This book is the first to offer an accessible and uncompromising look at the English Defence League (EDL). It aims to alter thinking about working-class politics and the rise of right-wing nationalism in the de-industrialised and decaying towns and cities of England. The rise of the right among the working class, the authors claim, is inextricably connected to the withdrawal of the political left from traditional working-class communities, and the left's refusal to advance the economic interests of those who have suffered most from neoliberal economic restructuring. Incisive, contentious and boundary-breaking, it uses the voices of men and women who ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447328483
SKU
V9781447328483
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99-50
About Simon Winlow
Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology in the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology, Teesside University. A critical criminologist with research expertise in both sociology and criminology, he has also published widely on violence, criminal markets and cultures, and social, political and economic change. Steve Hall is Professor of Criminology in the Teesside Centre for Realist ... Read more
Reviews for The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics
An honest book that critiques, questions, and debates the relationship between an unfair neo-liberal society, working-class people and the rise of the right . Lisa Mckenzie, London School of Economics & Political Science If the Western left don't pay heed to what Winlow et al have to say, then it could be curtains forever. Sputnik News The ... Read more