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Record Nr.

UNINA9910147096103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003

ISBN

1-280-73461-2

9786610734610

1-84779-088-7

1-4237-0660-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Critical labour movement series

Altri autori (Persone)

CallaghanJohn (John T.)

FieldingSteven <1961->

LudlamSteve <1951->

Disciplina

324.24107

Soggetti

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected papers from a conference in Manchester, July 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.