Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History (Critical Labour Movement Studies)

Contents......Page 6
Series editors’ foreword......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction (John Callaghan, Steven Fielding and Steve Ludlam)......Page 12
1 Understanding Labour’s ideological trajectory (Nick Randall)......Page 19
2 ‘What kind of people are you?’ Labour, the people and the ‘new political history’ (Lawrence Black)......Page 34
3 ‘Labourism’ and the New Left (Madeleine Davis)......Page 50
4 Ralph Miliband and the Labour Party: from Parliamentary Socialism to ‘Bennism’ (Michael Newman)......Page 68
5 The continuing relevance of the Milibandian perspective (David Coates and Leo Panitch)......Page 82
6 An exceptional comrade? The Nairn–Anderson interpretation (Mark Wickham-Jones)......Page 97
7 Class and politics in the work of Henry Pelling (Alastair J. Reid)......Page 112
8 Ross McKibbin: class cultures, the trade unions and the Labour Party (John Callaghan)......Page 127
9 The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective (Steven Fielding and Declan McHugh)......Page 145
10 Too much pluralism, not enough socialism: interpreting the unions–party link (Steve Ludlam)......Page 161
11 Lewis Minkin and the party–unions link (Eric Shaw)......Page 177
12 How to study the Labour Party: contextual, analytical and theoretical issues (Colin Hay)......Page 193
Guide to further reading......Page 208
Index......Page 214