In and Against the Market? The development of socialist economic strategies in Britain, 1981–1986

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The most coherent alternatives to the urban and economic policies of the post 1979 Conservative government did not come from the national opposition parties, but from a relatively small group of radical local authorities. This paper focuses on three of these — the GLC/GLEB, Sheffield and the West Midlands County Council/WMEB — to illustrate the range of alternatives developed and some of the difficulties and possibilities associated with them. The need to develop close relations with the private sector suggests both that the scope for radical intervention may be less than was sometimes hoped for, and that the hostility of central government (and more ‘moderate’ councils) towards these experiments has been misguided.

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