Interpreting the Labour Party : approaches to Labour politics and history / edited by John Callaghan, Steven Fielding, Steve Ludlam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Callaghan, John (John T.)

Fielding, Steven, 1961-

Ludlam, Steve, 1951-

Series:

Critical labour movement studies series.

Critical labour movement series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain)--History--Congresses.

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement.

Contents:

Introduction (John Callaghan, Steven Fielding and Steve Ludlam)

1. Understanding Labour's ideological trajectory (Nick Randall)

2. 'What kind of people are you?' Labour, the people and the 'new political history' (Lawrence Black)

3. 'Labourism' and the New Left (Madeleine Davis)

4. Ralph Miliband and the Labour Party: from Parliamentary Socialism to 'Bennism' (Michael Newman)

5. The continuing relevance of the Milibandian perspective (David Coates and Leo Panitch)

6. An exceptional comrade? The Nairn-Anderson interpretation (Mark Wickham-Jones)

7. Class and politics in the work of Henry Pelling (Alastair J. Reid)

8. Ross McKibbin: class cultures, the trade unions and the Labour Party (John Callaghan)

9. The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective (Steven Fielding and Declan McHugh)

10. Too much pluralism, not enough socialism: interpreting the unions-party link (Steve Ludlam)

11. Lewis Minkin and the party-unions link (Eric Shaw)

12. How to study the Labour Party: contextual, analytical and theoretical issues (Colin Hay)

Guide to further reading

Index.

Notes:

Selected papers from a conference in Manchester, July 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786610734610

9781280734618

1280734612

9781847790880

1847790887

9781423706601

1423706609

OCLC:

567961476