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In this chapter, I analyse the British Labour Party’s embrace of neoliberal policies during the Blair government. I argue that Labour’s turn to the right was principally the result of a shift to a more passive approach to union–Cparty relations on the part of organized labour. The labour movement’s defensiveness created the opening through which Blair and his colleagues moved to establish a very close relationship with business, to bring the Labour Party into what Motta and Bailey term a ‘neoliberal power network’, actively contributing to the reproduction of neoliberal hegemony.1
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Schulman, J. (2015). The British Labour Party. In: Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137303172_3
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