ABSTRACT

The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes. 

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

The importance of decline

chapter Chapter 2|21 pages

Inventing decline

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

Decline and the Left

chapter Chapter 4|17 pages

Decline and the Right

chapter Chapter 5|18 pages

Decline as history, history as decline

chapter Chapter 6|17 pages

Decline in the 1970s and 1980s

chapter Chapter 7|19 pages

The present and future of decline