The labour party conference (aláírt példány)

Fülszöveg

'. . . a book which no one who wishes to be well-informed about the Labour movement can do without. . . of crucial importance for the Labour Party.'
— Tribune '. . . a source book for a generation of political students and analysts.'
— Sunday Telegraph 'It will be the classic work of reference on the Labour Party for years to come.'
— Frank Allaun MP Labour Weekly '. . . an impressively comprehensive academic study . '. . original and contentious conclusion . . .'
— The Guardian '. . . monumental . . . meticulously uncovering the basis of leadership control over the Labour Party . . .'
— Socialist Register '. . . an extremely important book which probably comes nearer to explaining the real character of Britain's major working-class party and the way in which it functions than any other treatise yet in existence . . . likely to remain the standard book on the subject for many years to come.'
— Bulletin of the Society for the
study of Labour History
'. . . many new... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'. . . a book which no one who wishes to be well-informed about the Labour movement can do without. . . of crucial importance for the Labour Party.'
— Tribune '. . . a source book for a generation of political students and analysts.'
— Sunday Telegraph 'It will be the classic work of reference on the Labour Party for years to come.'
— Frank Allaun MP Labour Weekly '. . . an impressively comprehensive academic study . '. . original and contentious conclusion . . .'
— The Guardian '. . . monumental . . . meticulously uncovering the basis of leadership control over the Labour Party . . .'
— Socialist Register '. . . an extremely important book which probably comes nearer to explaining the real character of Britain's major working-class party and the way in which it functions than any other treatise yet in existence . . . likely to remain the standard book on the subject for many years to come.'
— Bulletin of the Society for the
study of Labour History
'. . . many new interpretations and perceptions of the Labour Party . . . revelations about the behaviour of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in William Carron's day are startling.'
— British Book News
How does the Labour Party Conference work? How is power distributed among those who take part? How is policy made at and through the Conference? How does the Conference interact with other bodies within the Party? These are some of the questions answered in this definitive study.
Each segment of the Conference is scrutinised in detail and its secret areas explored, including the dextrous management of the agenda, the conflicts within union delegations (particularly the remarkable Engineers' delegation) and the elections for the National Executive Committee.
The author challenges the orthodox view that power in the Labour Party is inevitably and invariably concentrated into the hands of the Parliamentary leadership. He also offers a new interpretation of the Party's ideological changes in recent years. He illustrates how the subtle controls which operated at the Conference obscured the extent of support for traditional democratic socialism during the years of what was then thought to be the 'victory' of social-democratic revisionism within the Party. Vissza