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Ethical socialism and the trade unions : Allan Flanders and British industrial relation reform / John Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, John E., 1952- author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in employment relations ; 22.
- Routledge research in employment relations ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flanders, Allan D.
- Industrial relations--Great Britain--History.
- Industrial relations.
- Labor unions--Great Britain--History.
- Labor unions.
- Socialism--Great Britain--History.
- Socialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political activist. Originally trained in German revolutionary ethical socialism in the early 1930s, he was the founder and joint editor of Socialist Commentary, the leading outlet for 'revisionist' social democratic thinking in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the leading figure in the influential 1950
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Industrial Relations and Social Democratic Politics; 2 Revolutionary Ethical Socialism in Interwar Germany; 3 Revolutionary Socialism in a Cold Climate 1932-1939; 4 Trade Unions under 'Planned Capitalism' 1939-1946; 5 Democratic Socialism in the Cold War 1946-1951; 6 The Recuperation of Ethical Socialism 1951-1959; 7 Ethical Socialism and Industrial Relations Reform 1959-1973; 8 The Limits and Failings of Industrial Relations Reform
- 9 Conclusions: Allan Flanders, Ethical Socialism and the Reform of British Industrial RelationsEpilogue: Industrial Relations Reform and Social Democratic Politics after Flanders; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-95525-9
- 1-136-95526-7
- 1-282-58620-3
- 9786612586200
- 0-203-84942-6
- 9780203849422
- OCLC:
- 630539332
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