The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History

by G. Foote

Overview

This book provides a synoptic and accessible history of the development of political ideas within the Labour Party. It traces the complex relationship between power and political thought and illustrates how Labour's political ideas have been shaped and formed by the Labour Party's political experience. It presents 'labourism' or trade union politics as a clear theory and stresses its importance in understanding the different phases in the party's history, arguing that it constitutes the bedrock of the party's thought and that its crisis has caused the recent changes in party ideology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333669440
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/12/1997
Edition description:	3rd ed. 1997
Pages:	387
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - Acknowledgements - PART 1: LABOURISM AND THE LABOUR PARTY - Introduction - PART 2: THE FORMATION OF BRITISH SOCIALISM - Marxists, Fabians and Ethical Socialist: The Traditions of British Socialism - The Emergence of British Socialism - R.H. Tawney and the Philosophy of British Socialism - PART 3: THE FORMATION OF CORPORATE SOCIALISM - The Syndicalist Challenge - G.D.H. Cole and the Guild Socialist Response -The ILP and the Keynesian Challenge - The Emergence of Corporate Socialism - PART 4: THE REVISIONIST CHALLENGE - The Revisionist Forerunners - The Revisionist Heyday - Revisionism in Crisis - PART 5: THE CHALLENGE OF THE LEFT - The Bevanite Left - The Challenge of the New Left - The Bennite Left - The Emergence of 'New Labour' - Chronology - Index