The Labour Party

A Centenary History

By: B. Brivati (Editor), R. Heffernan (Editor)

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Paperback | 9 May 2000 | Edition Number 1

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On 27 February 1900, the Labour Representation Committee was formed to campaign for the election of working class representatives to parliament. One hundred years on Labour is in government with an overwhelming majority. 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 1900s. Contributions include commentaries and analyses from former Labour leaders, cabinet ministers and backbench MPs: Denis Healey David Owen John Biffen Calum MacDonald Clare Short Adrian Mitchell Angela Eagle

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Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xxii
Labour's First Century
Introduction	p. 1
Out of the bowels of the Movement: The Trade Unions and the Origins of the Labour Party 1900-18	p. 8
Labour In and Out of Government, 1923-1935	p. 50
The Attlee Years, 1935-1955	p. 68
The Age of Wilson 1955-1979	p. 87
The Wilderness Years, 1979-1994	p. 112
From Old to New Labour, 1994-2000	p. 143
Centenary Reflections
In Defense of New Labour	p. 163
The Legacy of the SDP	p. 166
A Tory View of 1964-70	p. 170
The Challenge of Co-operation	p. 172
The Global Future	p. 176
Reinterpreting Labour's History of Failure	p. 178
An End of Century Report Card	p. 183
Themes in Labour's First Century
Trade Union Freedom and the Labour Party: Arthur Deakin, Frank Cousins and the Transport and General Workers Union 1945-1964	p. 187
Norms and Blocks: Trade Unions and the Labour Party since 1964	p. 220
Leaders and Followers: The Politics of the Parliamentary Labour Party	p. 246
Crimes and Misdemeanours: Managing Dissent in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Labour Party	p. 268
Labour's Constitution and Public Ownership: From 'Old' Clause Four to 'New' Clause Four	p. 292
A 'miracle of politics': the rise of Labour, 1900-45	p. 322
'The future Labour offered': industrial modernisation projects in the British Labour Party from Gaitskell to Blair	p. 346
Labour's international policy: A story of conflict and contention	p. 363
Beyond Euro-Scepticism? Labour and the European Union since 1945	p. 383
Questions of Gender: Labour and Women	p. 402
Labour and Welfare Politics	p. 422
Labour Local Government 1900-1999	p. 449
Labour's literary dominance	p. 485
Index	p. 503
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