Interpreting the Labour Party

by Callaghan; Ludlam; Fielding

• ISBN13: 9780719067198
• ISBN10: 0719067197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-13
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Interpreting the Labour Partyconsists 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.

Author Biography

John Callaghan is Professor of Politics at the University of Wolverhampton. Steven Fielding is Professor of Contemporary Political History in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History and Associate Director of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford. Steve Ludlam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Series editors' foreword	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
Contributors	ix
Introduction
John Callaghan, Steven Fielding and Steve Ludlam	1	(7)
1 Understanding Labour's ideological trajectory
Nick Randall	8	(15)
2 'What kind of people are you?' Labour, the people and the 'new political history'
Lawrence Black	23	(16)
3 'Labourism' and the New Left
Madeleine Davis	39	(18)
4 Ralph Miliband and the Labour Party: from Parliamentary Socialism to Bennism'
Michael Newman	57	(14)
5 The continuing relevance of the Milibandian perspective
David Coates and Leo Panitch	71	(15)
6 An exceptional comrade? The Nairn-Anderson interpretation
Mark Wickham-Jones	86	(15)
7 Class and politics in the work of Henry Peiling
Alastair J. Reid	101	(15)
8 Ross McKibbin: class cultures, the trade unions and the Labour Party
John Callaghan	116	(18)
9 The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective
Steven Fielding and Declan McHugh	134	(16)
10 Too much pluralism, not enough socialism: interpreting the unions-party link
Steve Ludlam	150	(16)
11 Lewis Minkin and the party-unions link
Eric Shaw	166	(16)
12 How to study the Labour Party: contextual, analytical and theoretical issues
Colin Hay	182	(15)
Guide to further reading	197	(6)
Index	203