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Jimmy Reid - A Clyde-built man (Paperback)
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Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was
undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century
Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the
history of industrial relations and politics in Britain, Jimmy's
story is an epic one; from a poverty-stricken background in Govan,
Glasgow, he became a communist at a young age, leading a national
strike of engineering apprentices while only twenty, before being
thrown into the national limelight as the leading spokesperson for
the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In in 1971-2. Disillusioned with
communism he left the Party for Labour and the centre-left before
leaving them disenchanted with New Labour to join the Scottish
National Party. This enlightening book looks at Jimmy's political
journey from Communism, to Labourism, and ultimately to Nationalism
(a political life in three acts), which not only speaks of the
complexities of left politics after 1945, but also illuminates our
understanding of institutions and social change in post-war Britain
by showing how they were understood and negotiated by one
inspirational individual.
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