Social Exclusion and New Labour

By: R. Levitas

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Hardcover | 30 November 1998 | Edition Number 1

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A topical critical examination of the idea of social exclusion and the new political language of social cohesion, community, stakeholding and inclusion. The author examines the actions and rhetoric of the Labour Party and Labour Government under Tony Blair's leadership, and identifies three different discourses of social exclusion. Using this model, she explores views of inclusion put forward by Will Hutton and other stakeholders, by communitarians including Etzioni and Gray, and by the Labour Party from the Borrie and the Commission on Social Justice, to Blair and the Social Exclusion Unit. This work is intended for departments of politics (courses in British politics, social policy, comparative politics and political theory), sociology (courses in inequality and poverty), a more general political readership on social policy and politics of social exclusion and poverty, and politics of the Left among policymakers, think-tanks, pressure groups, and so on.

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'This incisive and very readable account of the New Labour discourse and politics of social exclusion is both topical and thought-provoking. It reminds us that the cosy language of community, stakeholding and social inclusion can serve to obscure inequalities and fundamental conflicts of interest. It should be read not just by all those interested in the New Labour 'project' but, even more importantly, by those conducting it.' - Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University

'This is a stunningly effective critique of some of New Labour's flannel. Ruth Levitas has provided a cool, analytical dissection of the subtle changes in approach towards poverty and social exclusion appearing in various influential documents of the 1990s...this book should make both politicians and sociologists squirm.' - Ray Pahl, The Sociological Review

'...this is a really good book - clear coherent, and plainly and intelligibly written.' - David Byrne, Work, Employment and Society

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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Three Discourses of Social Exclusion	p. 7
From Social Justice to Social Cohesion	p. 29
The Optimism of Will	p. 49
Staking Claims	p. 70
Community Rules	p. 89
New Labour, New Discourse	p. 112
From Equality to Inclusion	p. 128
Delivering Social Inclusion	p. 159
The New Durkheimian Hegemony	p. 178
Appendix	p. 190
Notes	p. 192
Select Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 216
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