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Remaking the Labour Party Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK)

Remaking the Labour Party By Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK)

Remaking the Labour Party by Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK)


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A detailed account of the revisionist thought in the Labour Party from the 1950s up to Blair. Jones focuses on attitudes to public ownership, and draws on interviews with key players, such as Wilson, Jenkins, and Kinnock.

Remaking the Labour Party Summary

Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair by Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK)

Remaking the Labour Party examines the development of revisionist thought in the Labour Party from the 1950s up to Tony Blair's successful attempt to rewrite Clause Four in April 1995. The main focus is upon the most distinctive and controversial aspect of Labour revisionism - its attitude toward public ownership and socialism, private ownership and the mixed economy.
Remaking the Labour Party comprises a detailed study of a process of ideological conflict which began with the Labour Party's debate in the 1950s over the link between public ownership and socialism. The deepening confrontation that arose from the revisionist thinking of Crosland and Gaitskell is explored in the Clause Four controversy of 1959-60 and in the uneasy compromise forged in its aftermath. The period of ideological truce under Harold Wilson's leadership is examined, together with the bitter conflict that later resurfaced in the party during the 1970s and early 80s. Finally, the study focuses on the second stage of Labour's policy and ideological rethinking which developed after 1983 under the leadership first of Neil Kinnock and then of Tony Blair.
Drwing on the author's own interviews with some of the leading protagonists of the debate, as well as upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Remaking the Labour Party will be of value to students of modern British politics and political thought, it will also be of interest to observers and members of the Labour Party.

Remaking the Labour Party Reviews

'Dr Jones' book is a thorough and lucid account of the decades of repeated efforts to renew the Labour Party made by some who led it, some who loved it and some who did both ... It is a useful antidote to myths and - I hope - a final cure for the recurrent amnesia which made remaking necessary' - - Neil Kinnock

About Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK)

Dr Tudor Jones is a senior lecturer in politics at Coventry University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Labour, public ownership and socialist myth; Chapter 2 The emergence and refinement of Labour revisionism, 19519; Chapter 3 The climax of revisionism; Chapter 4 Revisionism diluted, 196070; Chapter 5 Revisionist social democracy in retreat, 197083; Chapter 6 Revisionism reborn? 198392; Chapter 7 The triumph of revisionism?; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

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NPB9780415125499
9780415125499
0415125499
Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair by Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-10-24
208
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