Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge

by Peter North, Mark O'Brien, Diane Frost

In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In an environment of mass unemployment in which Liverpool felt abandoned by an indifferent government, the council resolved to join others across the land in refusing to set a budget that would hurt the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846318637
• ISBN13: 9781846318634
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"