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POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12 of conflict and contestation to which this gave rise. As always there are different views; but by common consent this marked the crisis of the post-war settlement and a period of relative polarisation, political and social. Though this had many aspects, we focus particularly on the issue of industrial relations. As suggested at the beginning of the course, the unions were embedded in the post-war settlement and the increasing volatility of industrial relations may be seen as a measure of its breakdown, culminating in the industrial conflicts of the 1970s. The focus here is particularly on the ’74-’79 Wilson-Callaghan governments, and appropriately so: for the crisis in industrial relations was more particularly a crisis for the Labour Party and for British social democracy, and it went to the heart of the party’s identity in a way that could not have ben true for Heath or Thatcher. Eric Hobsbawm’s lecture on ‘The forward march of labour halted?’ was an influential discussion of the issue from the left which you need to be familiar with. However, problems in industrial relations had been mounting for a decade or more, and the earlier Wilson and Heath governments had both tried and failed to address them. 28
POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12 WEEK 7 Is it accurate to refer to the ‘racialisation’ of British politics after 1958? If so, who or what was responsible? 7.1 Questions 1. Do you agree with Shamit Saggar that the late 1950s saw a ‘significant advance in the racialisation of British politics’? Why was this particular period so decisive? Did the politicians lead public opinion or were they led by it? What were, or should have been, the limits to electoral pragmatism? And can the preceding period be regarded as an age of more tolerant race relations? 2. Are left-right or Labour-Conservative dichotomies the best way of explaining approaches to immigration and race relations? Which, if either, party had the better record on these issues? And which do you think stood to gain the greater advantage from them? Did the British party and electoral system serve to dampen or increase the salience of racial politics? 3. Why did the far right appear to have had such a limited impact on British politics (or did it)? To what extent should its real impact be regarded as the pressure and leverage it managed to exercise on the mainstream political parties? 7.2 Essential readings EITHER (i) Shamit Saggar Race and Politics in Britain, 1992. (Ch. 7: ‘The politics of race, nation and culture’.) OR (ii) Zig Layton-Henry The Politics of Immigration, 1992. (Ch 2, 4 and 7 especially) Paul B. Rich ‘Ethnic politics and the Conservatives in the post- Thatcher era’ in Shamit Saggar, ed., Race and British Electoral Politics, 1998. 7.3 General texts and alternative readings (i) on the politics of race John Solomos Race and Racism in Britain, 1989 edn, chs 3-4 R. Miles and A. Phizacklea White Man’s Country, 1984. S. Saggar “Immigration and the politics of public opinion in Britain” University of Yale Politics Papers [online http://www.yale.edu/cpworkshop/Saggar%20Paper.pdf] Kalbir Shukra ‘New Labour debates and dilemmas’ in Shammit Saggar, ed., Race and British Electoral Politics, 1998 Paul B. Rich Race and Empire in British politics, 1990 edn, ch. 8: ‘End of empire and the rise of “race relations” R Eatwell & M Goodwin (eds) The New Extremism in Twenty-First Century Britain. 29
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