Colm Murphy (Queen Mary University of London)

Futures of Socialism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Modern British Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781009278812
• ISBN-10: 1009278819
• Artikelnr.: 66805619

Autorenporträt

Colm Murphy is Lecturer in British Politics at Queen Mary University of London and Deputy Director of the Mile End Institute. He was previously Past & Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. He has published in History Workshop Journal, Twentieth Century British History, and Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The plural modernisations of the British left; Part I. Social
Democracy and the Challenge to the Nation-State: 1. 'Keynes is dead,
Beveridge is dead': modernisation, globalisation, and European integration;
2. Industrial democracy, market socialism, and stakeholder capitalism:
modernisation and socioeconomic democracy; Part II. Identities and Mmodern
Socialism': 3. 'An old working class may be waning, but a new one is being
born'? Gender, Labour, and modernisation; 4. A telling absence: race,
multiculturalism, and modernisation; Part III. The Search for a Modernising
Social Democracy; 5. 'A modern democracy': modernisation and constitutional
reform; 6. White heat to interactive whiteboard: modernisation and Labour's
economic strategy; Conclusion: contested futures of socialism in Britain's
late twentieth century.