The Recomposition of the British State During the 1980s

Abstract

Part 1: Marxist approaches to Thatcherism form of presentation. Part 2 Form and content of the capitalist state: social form and difference-in-unity of the political and the economic social constitution and the form of the capitalist state money, crisis and the state. Part 3 Crisis of accumulation: the implications of the money power of capital for the state the social contract. Part 4 The development of the state under the Thatcher governments: the MTFS and the productive and disruptive power of labour trade union policy decomposition of class and welfare policies. Part 5 Summary: monetarism and class.