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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Callaghan, John, Editor.

Fielding, Steven, Editor.

Ludlam, Steve, Editor.

Series:

Critical Labour Movement Studies.

Critical Labour Movement Studies

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).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK New York, NY : Manchester University Press, 2003.

Manchester, UK New York, NY : Manchester University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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. The essays are written by contributors who have devoted many years to the study of the Labour Party, the trade union movement and the various ideologies associated with them. The book begins with an in-depth analysis of how to study the Labour Party, and goes on to examine key periods in the development of the ideologies to which the party has subscribed. Each chapter situates its subject matter in the context of a broader intellectual legacy, including the works of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Theodore Rothstein, Stuart Hall and Samuel Beer, among others.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Series editors' foreword

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

1 Understanding Labour's ideological trajectory

2 'What kind of people are you?'

3 'Labourism' and the New Left

4 Ralph Miliband and the Labour Party

5 The continuing relevance of the Milibandian perspective

6 An exceptional comrade?

7 Class and politics in the work of Henry Pelling

8 Ross McKibbin

9 The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective

10 Too much pluralism, not enough socialism

11 Lewis Minkin and the party-unions link

12 How to study the Labour Party

Guide to further reading

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-3745-3

OCLC:

1408682484

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access