The Labour Party : a centenary history /

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Imprint:Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.
Description:xxi, 512 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4334293
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Other authors / contributors:Brivati, Brian.
Heffernan, Richard.
ISBN:033374649X
0333746503 (pbk.) £19.99
Notes:Bibliography.
Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Labour's First Century
  • Introduction
  • Out of the bowels of the Movement: The Trade Unions and the Origins of the Labour Party 1900-18
  • Labour In and Out of Government, 1923-1935
  • The Attlee Years, 1935-1955
  • The Age of Wilson 1955-1979
  • The Wilderness Years, 1979-1994
  • From Old to New Labour, 1994-2000
  • Part II. Centenary Reflections
  • In Defense of New Labour
  • The Legacy of the SDP
  • A Tory View of 1964-70
  • The Challenge of Co-operation
  • The Global Future
  • Reinterpreting Labour's History of Failure
  • An End of Century Report Card
  • Part III. Themes in Labour's First Century
  • Trade Union Freedom and the Labour Party: Arthur Deakin, Frank Cousins and the Transport and General Workers Union 1945-1964
  • Norms and Blocks: Trade Unions and the Labour Party since 1964
  • Leaders and Followers: The Politics of the Parliamentary Labour Party
  • Crimes and Misdemeanours: Managing Dissent in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Labour Party
  • Labour's Constitution and Public Ownership: From 'Old' Clause Four to 'New' Clause Four
  • A 'miracle of politics': the rise of Labour, 1900-45
  • 'The future Labour offered': industrial modernisation projects in the British Labour Party from Gaitskell to Blair
  • Labour's international policy: A story of conflict and contention
  • Beyond Euro-Scepticism? Labour and the European Union since 1945
  • Questions of Gender: Labour and Women
  • Labour and Welfare Politics
  • Labour Local Government 1900-1999
  • Labour's literary dominance
  • Index