Futures of socialism : 'modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British left, 1973-1997 / Colm Murphy.
By: Murphy, Colm (Lecturer in British politics) [author.]
.Series: Modern British histories: Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: x, 316 pages : illustration.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781009278812.Subject(s): Labour Party (Great Britain) | Political parties -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 324.24107 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 324.24107 MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 022111 |
Introduction : the plural modernisations of the British left -- I. Social democracy and the challenge to the nation state -- 'Keynes is dead, Beveridge is dead' : modernisation, globalisation, and European integration -- Industrial democracy, market socialism, and stakeholder capitalism : modernisation and socioeconomic democracy -- II. Identities and 'modern socialism' : 'An old working class may be waning, but a new one is being born'? : gender, labour, and modernisation -- A telling absence : race, multiculturalism, and modernisation -- III. The search for a modernising social democracy -- 'A modern democracy' : modernisation and constitutional reform -- White heat to interactive whiteboard : modernisation and Labour's economic strategy -- Conclusion : contested futures of socialism in the late twentieth century.
"Futures of Socialism overhauls the history of 'modernisation' and the British Left and recasts our understanding of New Labour. It provides an innovative, iconoclastic history of debates over the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party, beginning with the shocks of the 1970s and ending with the emergence of New Labour"-- Provided by publisher.