Gregor Gall: The Political Economy of Scotland: Red Scotland? Radical Scotland?(Book review)

From: Capital & Class | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Gregor Gall The Political Economy of Scotland: Red Scotland? Radical Scotland? University of Wales Press, 2005, 212 pp. ISBN 0-708-31944-0 (hbk) 60 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-708-31973-4 (pbk) 20 [pounds sterling]

Scotland's supposedly greater affinity with socialism or more radical versions of social democracy, together with a reputation for greater labour militancy (as in the legend of Red Clydeside), is taken for granted more often than not. Whether in everyday conversation, journalistic reportage, political polemic or even scholarly treatise, Scotland, relative to the rest ...

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