The Labour Party
Subtitle: a centenary history
By: edited by Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan ; foreword by Tony Blair ; preface by Michael Foot
Contributors: Brivati, Brian; Heffernan, Richard
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History
Description: "The Labour Party presents the latest thinking on the evolution of the Party during its first century. Trade unions, the parliamentary party and Labour's electoral strategy are considered alongside broader policy areas such as international relations and welfare. The process of modernization and change in the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair is discussed in many of the chapters, which combine work from contemporary historians, political scientists and sociologists.

This book is a unique opportunity both to celebrate and to assess critically the Labour Party's role in shaping the events of the twentieth century. It brings together academics from a variety of disciplines to examine the history of the Party's development and its impact on Britain in the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Preface / Michael Foot; title: Foreword / Tony Blair; title: Introduction / Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan; title: Out of the bowers of the movement : the trade unions and the origins of the Labour Party 1900-18 / Robert Taylor; title: Labour in and out of government, 1923-1935 / Keith Laybourn; title: The Attlee years, 1935-1955 / Kevin Jefferys; title: The age of Wilson 1955-1979 / Lewis Baston; title: The wilderness years, 1979-1994 / Eric Shaw; title: From old to new Labour, 1994-2000 / Martin J. Smith; title: In defence of new Labour / Denis Healey; title: The legacy of the SDP / David Owen; title: A Tory view of 1964-1970 / John Biffen; title: The challenge of co-operation / Calum MacDonald; title: The global future / Clare Short; title: Reinterpreting Labour's history of failure / Austin Mitchell; title: An end of century report card / Angela Eagle; title: Trade union freedom and the Labour Party : Arthur Deakin, Frank Cousins and the Transport and General Workers Union 1945-1964 / Robert Taylor; title: Norms and blocks : trade unions and the Labour Party since 1964 / Steve Ludlam; title: Leaders and followers : the politics of the Parliamentary Labour Party / Richard Heffernan; title: Crimes and misdemeanours : managing dissent in the twentieth and twenty-first century Labour Party / Tim Bale; title: Labour's constitution and public ownership : from 'old Clause Four to 'new' Clause Four / Tudor Jones; title: A 'miracle of politics' : the rise of Labour, 1900-45 / Andrew Chadwick; title: 'The future Labour offered' : industrial modernisation projects in the British Labour Party from Gaitskell to Blair / Brian Brivati; title: Labour's international policy : a story of conflict and contention / Dan Keohane; title: Beyond Euro-scepticism? Labour and the European Union since 1945 / Richard Heffernan; title: Questions of gender : Labour and women / Christine Collette; title: Labour and welfare politics / Nick Ellison; title: Labour local government 1900-1999 / Lewis Baston; title: Labour's literary dominance / Brian Brivati