Rethinking Labour's Past (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Yeowell, Nathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn is charting a new direction. Here, Nathan Yeowell has brought together a remarkable array of contributors to provide expert insight into twentieth-century British history and Labour politics - and how they might shape thinking about Labour's future.

Reframing the span of Labour history and its effects on contemporary British politics, the book provides fresh thinking and analysis of various traditions, themes and individuals. These include the shifting significance of 1945, the need for more grounded interpretations of Tony Blair's legacy, and the enduring importance of place, identity and aspiration to the evolution of the party. Contributions from leading historians such as Patrick Diamond, Steven Fielding, Ben Jackson, Glen O' Hara and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite are supplemented by those with experience of Labour electoral politics, such as Rachel Reeves and Nick Thomas-Symonds.

The result is an intellectually rich and politically relevant roadmap for Labour's future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755640188
• Artikelnr.: 63139361

Autorenporträt

Nathan Yeowell is Executive Director of Progressive Britain - the platform for policymaking, political education and imaginative thinking to rebuild Labour and the Nation. Prior to this, he was Head of Policy and External Affairs at the social sector think-tank New Philanthropy Capital and Head of the Labour Group Office at the Local Government Association.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors Acknowledgements ForewordRachel Reeves Part I 1.
Introduction: Rethinking Labour's past - Nathan Yeowell 2. The
Disenchantment of the Labour Party: Socialism, Liberalism and Progressive
History - Ben Jackson Part II 3. 'A party not unlike the Democrats':
Labour, the Left, and encounters in America from the New Deal to the New
Frontier - Richard Carr 4. The Shifting Significance of 'The Spirit of '45'
- Steven Fielding 5. The Fall and Rise of Harold Wilson - Glen O'Hara 6.
Crosland in the seventies: revisionist social democracy in a cold climate -
Patrick Diamond Part III 7. Municipal socialism and municipal feminism:
women and local Labour politics from the 1900s to the 1980s - Krista Cowman
8. Social democracy, the decline of community, and community politics in
post-war Britain - Nick Garland 9. Linking up Labour: place, community and
buses in 1980s Sheffield - Daisy Payling 10. Race and the left, from
protest to power? The story of Black Sections - Robin Bunce and Samara
Linton 11. 'This party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing': foreign aid
and Labour's ethical identity - Charlotte Lydia Riley Part IV 12. 'What did
the 1983 manifesto ever do for us?' - Colm Murphy 13. Neil Kinnock: a
reassessment - Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam 14. Past, present and
future: Tony Blair and the political legacy of New Labour - Andrew Hindmoor
and Karl Pike 15. Renewal beyond New Labour: from the LCC to Corbynomics -
George Morris, Emily Robinson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Part V 16.
The Labour Party and aspiration - Jeremy Nuttall 17. Conclusion: shaping
Labour's future - Nick Thomas-Symonds