TY - BOOK ID - 137099549 TI - Labour's Crisis : Plaid Cymru, the Conservatives, and the Decline of the Labour Party in North-West Wales, 1960-74 PY - 2011 SN - 0708324266 9780708324264 PB - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economics. KW - Labor. KW - Plaid Cymru KW - Wales Labour Party KW - Welsh Conservatives (Political party) KW - History KW - Wales, North KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137099549 AB - While the rise and success of the Labour party in Wales during the twentieth century has received a significant amount of attention from historians, this is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of its fragility and decline during the post-war period. Focussing on the understudied political terrain of north-west Wales the book explores the social, cultural and economic factors that undermined Labour's popularity and led to its defeat at the hands of both Plaid Cymru and the Conservative party. The book also challenges some popular myths in Welsh political history, notably the reasons ER -