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Description of The Labour Party

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

Title Information

ISBN:

9780333746509

Pages:

544 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

24575

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

Published:

19/04/2000

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About Brian Brivati (Editor) and Richard Heffernan (Editor)

BRIAN BRIVATI is Reader in History at Kingston University. His previous publications include Hugh Gaitskell (1996) which was selected as a book of the year by Roy Hattersley, Tony Benn, Donald Watt and Ian Aikten, and Lord Goodman (1999). RICHARD HEFFERNAN is a Lecturer in Government and Politics at the Open University. He has taught previously at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of New Labour and Thatcherism and co-author, with Mike Marqusee, of Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party.