Class Dealignment Theory
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- Decline in relationship between class and voting
- Reasons for middle class dealignment
- Working class origin
- Bring hostility to Conservatives with them
- Growth in Public Sector jobs
- Conservatives will cut public sector
- Working class origin
- Reasons for working class dealignment
- Decline of traditional industries and communities around them
- Fall in trade unionism
- New Industries: manual work in service/retail sector (eg microelectronic)
- Decline of traditional industries and communities around them
- Don't have as strong trade unions as old industries (eg. mining)
- New Industries: manual work in service/retail sector (eg microelectronic)
- Growth in New Working Class
- Growth in Home Ownership
- Ivor Crewe
- Class Dealignment Theory
- Reasons for middle class dealignment
- So New Working Class less loyal to Labour and redistribution
- Leads to Blairism and New Labour (move to centre)
- Is this the end of socialism?
- Reasons for working class dealignment
- Fall in trade unionism
- New Industries: manual work in service/retail sector (eg microelectronic)
- Don't have as strong trade unions as old industries (eg. mining)
- New Industries: manual work in service/retail sector (eg microelectronic)
- Growth in New Working Class
- Growth in Home Ownership
- Fall in trade unionism
- Leads to Blairism and New Labour (move to centre)
- Challenges to theory
- Heath, Jowell and Curtis
- Class catagories are outdated
- Created in 1950s
- Instead, should be 'Supervised' and 'Unsupervised' at work
- Labour's decline in 80s too quick to be due to slow social change
- So more to do with Labour's competence
- So was New Labour necessary?
- So more to do with Labour's competence
- Changing working class jobs does not change class identity
- People may be
- Class catagories are outdated
- Heath, Jowell and Curtis
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