Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. 1. Introduction: The Making of a Crisis 11
5. I. THE POLITICIAN’S PERSPECTIVE
6. 2. A Tory View 31
7. 3. A Socialist View 45
8. II. THE BRITISH ECONOMY
9. 4.The Heath Years: Some Further Thoughts about Union Influence 55
10. 5. Britain’s Economic Problems: Lies and Damn 66
11. 6. Britain’s Relative Economic Decline: A Reply to Stephen Blank 89
12. III.THE MODERN BRITISH STATE
13. 7. Was Guy Fawkes Right? 97
14. 8. Women and Equality in Britain 126
15. 9. The Americanization of British Politics 137
16. 10. A State of Desubordination 152
17. IV. ONE BRITAIN?
18. 11. From Scotland with Love 169
19. 12. Erosion of the Periphery 183
20. V. THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
21. 13. Whose Crisis?: Britain as an International Problem 203
22. 14. The Pax Britannica and British Foreign Policy 215
23. VI. THE FUTURE
24. 15. The Future of Britain’s Crisis: A Political Analysis 233
25. 16. Toward 1984: George Orwell and Today’s Britain 269
26. Contributors 277
27. Index 281