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This was a 1980s trendlet pushed by people like Stuart Hall and other ex-new-lefties. the premise was that the political economy and culture of British society in particular had made a qualitative change from rhe old model of class-conflict industrial relations and class-stratified social relations. Basically, Britain was becoming Americanized. This was an effort to explain the appeal of Thatcher and the failures of Old Labour, why Benn or Kinnock didn't catch fire. You can read the writings of Hall and other New Timesists in, e.g., The New Statesman of that epoch. There was also some discussion in NLR; I seem to recall that Perry Anderson gives it one of his usual magisterial surveys. It seems to have dried upi n the last decade as an intellectual movement, but its themes were carried over, with all the left wing elements stripped out, into Tony Blair's New Labour.
--jks