Futures of Socialism - ''Modernisation'', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973-1997

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Colm Murphy, Colm (Queen Mary University of London) Murphy, Murphy Colm
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781009278812
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927881-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Modern British Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Political Parties, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1970 to c 1979, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, c 1980 to c 1989, Political parties and party platforms