Labours Old and New the parliamentary right of the British Labour Party 1970-79 and the roots of New Labour.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- Critical Labour Movement Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The parliamentary Labour right: views and perspectives; 3 Parliamentary Labour right factionalism and organisational fragmentation in the 1970s; 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 ConclusionBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.
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 1970s. 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.
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Labour Party (Great Britain)--History--20th century.
Center parties--History--Great Britain--20th century. Great Britain--Politics and government--1964-1979. Labour Party (Great Britain)--History--20th century. Center parties--History--Great Britain--20th century.