The 1970s UK crisis fused economic, cultural and ethnic traumas into one ruptural conjuncture

Evidence

Their analysis was concerned to articulate together the economic, sociocultural, and ethnic dimensions of this (in their terms, “ruptural”) crisis, as post-imperial Britain experienced the simultaneous traumas of economic decline (in the context of what we can see now as some of the early symptoms of globalization), the political bankruptcy of the older Labour tradition, and the conflicts emerging around the particular situation of the new generation of unemployed and alienated black youth in the UK’s inner cities. As Stuart and his coauthors explain, they came to understand this as no temporary matter but as a generalized crisis of hegemony that had, in the words of Prime Minister Edward Heath, made the country “ungovernable.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 970 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1973 oil crisis ruptured the UK postwar welfare-state settlement; Britain’s mid-1970s crisis was a generalized crisis of hegemony, not a temporary matter — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 970; Britain’s economic crisis paired global recession with domestically specific accumulation failure. (+8 more)

Related

• The 1973 oil crisis ruptured the UK postwar welfare-state settlement (similarity 0.89)
• Britain’s mid-1970s crisis was a generalized crisis of hegemony, not a temporary matter (similarity 0.89)
• Britain’s decline combined global recession with its specific capital-accumulation crisis (similarity 0.83)
• Britain’s mid-1970s crisis combined global recession with its own weak capital accumulation (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Britain’s mid-1970s crisis was a generalized crisis of hegemony, not a temporary matter #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 970
• Britain’s imperial legacy turned black migration into phobic post-colonial melancholia #corroborates (0.80)
• The 1973 oil crisis ruptured the UK postwar welfare-state settlement #corroborates (0.70)
• Britain’s economic crisis paired global recession with domestically specific accumulation failure. #corroborates (0.70)
• The unifying 1970s category of black suppressed internal differences among nonwhite Britons. #expands (0.70)
• Post-imperial Britain grieves its lost power into racial phobia #corroborates (0.70)
• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #corroborates (0.70)
• Historical trauma transmits across generations through grief and disrupted cultural transmission #expands (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 10692
• British social regulation shifted from consent to coercion in the early 1970s #expands (0.60)