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Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions - Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform (Paperback)
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Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions - Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
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Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations
academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government
labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford
academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was
also a lifelong political activist. Originally trained in German
revolutionary ethical socialism in the early 1930s, he was the
founder and joint editor of Socialist Commentary, the leading
outlet for 'revisionist' social democratic thinking in Britain in
the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the leading figure in the
influential 1950s 'think tank' Socialist Union and played a key
part in the bitter factional struggles inside the Labour Party. The
main argument of the book is that Flanders' ethical socialist ideas
constituted both his strength and his weakness. Their rigor,
clarity and sweep enabled him to exert a major influence over
government attempts to negotiate labor reforms with the trade
unions. Yet he proved unable to explain the failure of the reforms
amidst rising levels of industrial conflict, as his intellectual
rigor turned into ideological rigidity. The failure of negotiated
reform led to Margaret Thatcher's neo-liberal assault on trade
union power in the 1980s.
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