The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of 'New' Labour - Softcover

Fielding, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333973933 ISBN 13: 9780333973936

Verlag: Palgrave, 2002

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The Blair government is much less novel and distinctive than has been assumed by most commentators who have, Steven Fielding argues, taken too much of its rhetoric at face value. Setting recent developments in a broader historical context, this major new text on the British Labour Party provides a balanced account of its present state and how it got there. The Labour Party is forever changing - though generally within long-established parameters. 'New' Labour is but the latest example of this process.

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STEVEN FIELDING is Professor of Contemporary Politics, University of Salford.

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This fascinating book brings together a collection of original documents, many previously unpublished, which trace the history of the Labour Party from its electoral zenith in 1951, through the disasters and divisions of the early 1980s to the Party's apparent revival under Tony Blair. Focusing on how competing elements within the Party responded to persistent electoral failure, it indicates the extent to which the original vision of 'socialism' was consequently transformed. The documents show how the leadership and Party members in the constituencies profoundly disagreed over the political implications of post-war social change. They further demonstrate that Labour's 'socialism' has always been a contested concept, the meaning of which divided as much as united the Party faithful.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0333973933
• ISBN 13: 9780333973936
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar