The New Labour Experiment

Author : Florence Faucher-King,Patrick Le Galés
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080476235X

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The New Labour Experiment by Florence Faucher-King,Patrick Le Galés Pdf

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic management. Blair and Brown developed a large controlling bureaucracy, making Britain's government one of the most centralized in the world. While some progressive policies were implemented, Faucher-King and Le Galès point to an overarching program of authoritative controls, massive surveillance, and illiberal social policies. Profound reforms were therefore linked to a new bureaucratic revolution that has subsequently been rejected by the British people. According to the authors, the financial crisis and the collapse of part of the banking system have signaled the end of the New Labour project.

Author : Florence Faucher-King,Patrick Le Galés
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804762342

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The New Labour Experiment by Florence Faucher-King,Patrick Le Galés Pdf

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour governments in Britain, when Tony Blair then Gordon Brown were Prime Ministers between 1997 and 2009. This assessment is based upon a review of implemented public policies and their outcomes instead of programmes or discourses.

Author : Jonathan Boston,Derek Gill
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781988533551

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Social Investment by Jonathan Boston,Derek Gill Pdf

The idea of social investment has obvious intuitive appeal. But is it robust? Is it built on sound philosophical principles and secure analytical foundations? Will it deliver better outcomes? For almost a decade, the idea of social investment has been a major focus of New Zealand policy-making and policy debate. The broad aim has been to address serious social problems and improve long-term fiscal outcomes by drawing on big data and deploying various analytical techniques to enable more evidence-informed policy interventions. But recent approaches to social investment have been controversial. In late 2017, the new Labour-New Zealand First government announced a review of the previous government's policies. As ideas about social investment evolve, this book brings together leading academics, commentators and policy analysts from the public and private sectors to answer three big questions: How should social investment be defined and conceptualized?; How should it be put into practice?; In what policy domains can it be most productively applied? As governments in New Zealand and abroad continue to explore how best to tackle major social problems, this book is essential for people seeking to understand social policy in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Peter Alsop; Ben Apted; Jonathan Boston; Holly Briffa; Simon Chapple; Alex Collie; Isabelle Collins; Steffan Crausaz; Jo Cribb; Sir Michael Cullen; Killian Destremau; Elizabeth Eppel; Diane Garrett; Derek Gill; David Hanna; Gary Hawke; Sarah Hogan; Tim Hughes; Girol Karacaoglu; Gail Kelly; Michael Mintrom; Graham Scott; Verna Smith; Simon Wakeman; Peter Wilson; Amanda Wolf; John Yeabsley; and Warren Young.

Author : Anthony Francis Heath,Roger Jowell,John Curtice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199245109

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The Rise of New Labour by Anthony Francis Heath,Roger Jowell,John Curtice Pdf

This work explores the emergence of New Labour from the ruins of old Labour's four successive defeats by the Conservatives. Based on the British Election Surveys, the book explores some of the key questions about contemporary British elections and the factors that decide their outcomes.

Author : Alan Finlayson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056454492

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Making Sense of New Labour by Alan Finlayson Pdf

This book makes sense of New Labour by interpreting its ideas and practices as symptoms of the times in which we live. Making Sense of New Labour is an in-depth study, interpreting a wide range of material, including party political broadcasts and other election material, Tony Blair's speeches, and internal policy discussion. Finlayson disentangles and analyses the different elements of New Labour's political philosophy, which he argues is in large part a reflection of the culture and politics of contemporary capitalism. As such the party inevitably finds itself managing a status quo rather than driving genuine change. The book considers: - Labour's marketing strategy and susceptibility to consumer culture - the rhetoric and practice of modernisation - the place of the Third Way in the context of recent British political and intellectual history - the meaning of the 'knowledge economy' and significance of welfare-to-work - Labour's conception, and management, of the state Alan Finlayson is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales Swansea.

Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0869140574

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The Labour Experiment by Stuart Macintyre Pdf

An examination of the policies of the labour movement in Australia and it's impact on working class living standards and class relations.

Author : Oliver J. Daddow
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719076404

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New Labour and the European Union by Oliver J. Daddow Pdf

This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997, promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of the British national identity, especially the country’s relationship to its past and its role in the world. Rebranding Britain, they argued, meant helping the British people feel comfortably at home in the European Union. What did New Labour achieve and did its European policy succeed? How did Blair and Brown try and persuade the British to accept a European future? What were the obstacles they faced and the strategies they used to overcome them? This timely study of New Labour’s effort to build a ‘pro-European consensus’ in Britain argues that the government failed to live up to its early promises. Based on evidence from well over one hundred of Blair and Brown’s foreign policy speeches supplemented by interviews with policy-makers, advisers and speech-writers from the time, the book is sympathetic to the challenge New Labour set itself but also critical of the rhetorical techniques it used to advance the Europeanist cause. Trapped between a broadly hostile media and an apathetic public, Blair and Brown failed to provide the necessary leadership to see Britain to a European future. Theoretically informed, empirically robust and methodologically innovative, this novel book will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary British foreign policy, the New Labour project and Euroscepticism in Britain.

Author : Andreas Cebulla
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
ISBN : 0754637751

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Welfare-to-work by Andreas Cebulla Pdf

In this timely work the authors track the influence of US ideology and experience on New Labour's reforms. They present the results of their pioneering examination of over fifty policy experiments in the US, checking whether the correct lessons were learned. Welfare-to-Work offers readers a unique combination of policy evaluation and the analysis of policy making.

Author : Meg Luxton
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0889610622

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More Than a Labour of Love by Meg Luxton Pdf

Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this book describes the work women do in their homes, caring for children and partners, and maintaining the house. It shows how their lives are shaped by domestic responsibilities and challenges the ways in which their work is neither recognized nor valued. Arguing that the work they do is socially necessary and central to the economy, it calls for a transformation of current social and economic relations.

Author : Chris Warhurst,Dennis Nickson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529702026

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Aesthetic Labour by Chris Warhurst,Dennis Nickson Pdf

This accessible and exciting new text looks at the implications of aesthetic labour for work and employment by contextualizing debates and offering a critical approach. The origins of aesthetic labour are explored, as well as the relevant theories from business and management, and sociology. Coverage includes key topics such as: corporate strategy; recruitment and selection practices; and discrimination. Key features include: - a range of case studies from across different types of organizations and popular culture - the exploration of topics such as branding, ′lookism′, ′dressing for success′ and cosmetic surgery - suggestions for further reading.

Author : G. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333983812

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The Impact of New Labour by G. Taylor Pdf

An up-to-date critical assessment of the 'New Labour' phenomena. It assesses the impact of Labour's 'modernizers' in three crucial areas: changes within the Labour party itself, the reformation of the British state, and the influence on particular areas of policy. The essays do not seek to provide unequivocal answers to the questions raised by the arrival of New Labour and their initial period in office, but provide a debate between the contributors over the nature and significance of these changes. The book is a wide-ranging and accessible account of the political phenomena which will lead Britain into the twenty-first century.

Author : Phil Allmendinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136833229

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New Labour and Planning by Phil Allmendinger Pdf

Allmendinger presents a thorough analysis of the planning system throughout the years of the Labour government, and what this means for the future of UK planning policy.

Author : Jon White,Leslie De Chernatony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 0704423359

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New Labour by Jon White,Leslie De Chernatony Pdf

Author : Giles Udy
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785902659

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Labour And The Gulag by Giles Udy Pdf

The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era in Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain. In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to work in labour camps. Subjected to appalling treatment, thousands died. When news of the camps leaked out in Britain, there were protests demanding the government ban imports of timber cut by slave labourers. The Labour government of the day dismissed mistreatment claims as Tory propaganda and blocked appeals for an inquiry. Despite the Cabinet privately acknowledging the harsh realities of the work camps, Soviet denials were publicly repeated as fact. One Labour minister even defended them as part of 'a remarkable economic experiment'. Labour and the Gulag explains how Britain's Labour Party was seduced by the promise of a socialist utopia and enamoured of a Russian Communist system it sought to emulate. It reveals the moral compromises Labour made, and how it turned its back on the people in order to further its own political agenda.

Author : Paul E. Willis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231053576

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Learning to Labor by Paul E. Willis Pdf

Claims the rebellion of poor and working class children against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.