Peter Latham

Who stole the town hall?

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that the UK Government intends to privatise all local services through its devolution agenda, Peter Latham proposes a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy, including land value taxation and a wealth tax.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9781447337270
• ISBN-10: 1447337271
• Artikelnr.: 47121997

Autorenporträt

Dr Peter Latham is a sociologist whose thesis on Theories of the Labour Movement in the 1970s used Antonio Gramsci's concept of the organic working-class intellectual to explain 20th-century rank-and-file movements in the British building industry. From 1999 to 2006 he was Treasurer and then Secretary of the Labour Campaign for Open Local Government. He is a member of the Communist Party of Britain's Economic Committee and the Labour Land Campaign and is a delegate to Croydon Trades Union Council.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Localism Act 2011, Open Public Services and the neoliberalisation of councils
Imposed 'metro' mayors: new wine in old bottles
Police and Crime Commissioners: another half-baked' import
Local government finance
Towards a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy.