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The talk will trace the PLP\u0092s acceptance of austerity (Fiscal Rules in today\u0092s parlance) through the 1970s back to the May Committee in 1931. It will look at the different approaches to welfare spending within the labour movement historically and outline the different attitudes to democratic theory and practice. Given the current political context and the ongoing dominance of austerity politics the talk will address this issue in a historical context and focus on earlier legacies within the PLP. Dave Lowes 28th May 2024 7pm-8.30pm Location: Swathmore Centre (Room 2) 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3 1AD The talk will trace the PLP\u0092s acceptance of austerity (Fiscal Rules in today\u0092s parlance) through the 1970s back to the May Committee in 1931. It will look at the different approaches to welfare spending within the … Continue reading “\u2018Cuts, Compliance and Resistance: a brief history of the labour movement\u2019s approaches to welfare and democratic practice\u2019.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe talk is based on a book and doctoral thesis – \u0091In defence of local government: an immanent critique of labour movement campaigns to defend jobs, services and local democracy in the 1980s.<\/em>\u0092 It was subsequently published by Merlin: Cuts, Privatisation and Resistance: Neoliberalism and the local state 1974-1987<\/em>
\nDave Lowes is an independent scholar, whose activism as a shop steward in Liverpool during the 1980s and 1990s informed his book Cuts, Privatisation and Resistance: Neoliberalism and the local state 1974-1987<\/em>. Other publications include The Anti-capitalist Dictionary<\/em> (Zed, 2006), and \u0091Mugsborough Then & Now: Robert Tressell’s ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"