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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 |
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