Strange Death of Labour in Scotland-Gerry Hassan,Eric Shaw

The Strange Death of Labour Scotland\nby Eric Shaw\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Eric Shaw\nTitle: The Strange Death of Labour Scotland\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political parties and party platforms\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9780748640027\nISBN-10: 0748640029\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAnalyses the rise and fall of Labour in Scotland and asks: is Labour''s decline irreversible? After being the leading party in Scotland for 50 years, Labour was shocked to lose an election and office to the SNP in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections, and thunderstruck when the SNP won a majority government in the same elections in 2011. This book analyses the last 30 years of Scottish Labour, from the arrival of Thatcherism .