Publication
by Matt Myers
Oxford University Press, 2025
- Offers a bold and exciting reinterpretation of contemporary European history and the history of the left
- A detailed archive-driven work involving 27 separate archives and multiple languages and oral history interviews
- Surveys an extremely large range of primary and secondary literature from seven countries
- "All students of contemporary socialism and the Left will have to reckon with Matt Myers's vigorously written and painstakingly researched argument that Socialist and Communist party strategies, and not the end of the historic working class, ushered in the age of neoliberalism. A book that should reorient a long debate." - Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University
"An important contribution to understanding the historical halt of the European labour movement around 1980, through political class analyses of three decisive strikes in Britain, France, and Italy." - Göran Therborn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Cambridge
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-halted-march-of-the-european-left-9780198944614
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