What's Wrong with Labour? Book

	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Preface
1	What is Labourism?	1
	Geoffrey Foote and Thomas Hodgskin	2
	Theodore Rothstein	4
	Ralph Miliband	5
	John Saville	10
	David Coates	11
	Tom Nairn	13
	Tom Forester	14
	Stephen Haseler	15
	John Marriott	15
	Willie Thompson	17
	Gregory Elliott	18
	Radhika Desai	18
	Michael Barratt-Brown and Colin Leys	19
	Hilary Wainwright	20
	Other writers	21
	Some brief criticisms	23
	Conclusion - an outline characterization of labourism	24
2	A short history of the British Labour Party	31
	Events leading up to the formation of the Labour Representation Committee	31
	The creation of the LRC	37
	The change of name in 1906	41
	Early opposition from within	43
	The new constitution of 1918	44
	The first ever Labour government	48
	1926 and 1931	48
	The post-war Labour governments	50
	Gaitskell and Clause Four	54
	Harold Wilson's technocracy	54
	The 1974 manifesto	56
	1983 and the response of the Right	56
	New Labour	57
	Conclusion - the continuity of labourism	59
3	Sheffield - a case study of labourism	61
	Introduction	61
	Methodology	62
	Why 1973-1998?	65
	The strength of the Sheffield labour movement	66
	Explanations for the decline of steel and engineering	73
	The responses of the local movement to decline - the unions	79
	The council's initiatives	83
	The effects on employment in the city	97
	Labour's electoral record in Sheffield since 1973	100
	Sheffield as an illustration of labourism	100
	Absence of ideology, a confused approach to policy-making and 'pragmatism' over principles	101
	The labour movement's emotional appeal	105
	The culture of defeatism	107
	Conclusion - the defeat of labourism?	109
	Postscript	123
4	Conclusion - a new characterization of labourism?	125
	An absence of ideology	128
	A confused and confusing policy-making process	132
	'Pragmatism' over principles	134
	The Labour Party - national or sectional?	136
	Labour's emotional appeal	141
	The lack of democracy and excessive bureaucracy	145
	The culture of defeatism	149
	What Labourism Is	152
	Bibliography	157
	References	163