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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807443003321

Autore

Meredith Stephen

Titolo

Labours old and new : the parliamentary right of the British Labour Party 1970-79 and the roots of New Labour / / Stephen Meredith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2008

ISBN

1-84779-648-6

1-78170-150-4

1-84779-224-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Critical labour movement studies

Disciplina

324.24107

Soggetti

Center parties - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1964-1979

Great Britain Politics and government 1997-2007

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-201)and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The parliamentary Labour right: views and perspectives; 3 Parliamentary Labour right factionalism and organisational fragmentation in the 1970's; 4 A prelude to secession? The parliamentary Labour right and Europe; 5 In Place of Strife? The parliamentary Labour right and the 'trade union question'; 6 The 'frontiers of social democracy': public expenditure, redistribution and divisions of social democratic political economy; 7 The parliamentary Labour right, Labour Party revisionism(s) and the roots of New Labour

8 Conclusion Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This study is concerned with the 'Old' Labour right at a critical juncture of social democratic and Labour politics. It attempts to understand the complex transition from so-called 'Old Right' to 'New Right' or 'New Labour', and locates at least some of the roots of the latter in the complexity, tensions and fragmentation of the former during the 'lean' years of social democracy in the 1970's. The analysis addresses both the short and long-term implications of the emerging ideological, organisational and political complexity and divisions of the



parliamentary Labour right and Labour revisionism