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After the twenty year hiatus of Thatcherism, the character and
politics of the British Labour Party are again centre stage. In the
UK itself, a new generation of students, intellectuals and
political activists are turning both their scholarship and their
politics back towards Labour. Abroad there is widespread interest
in the substance and potential of New Labour's 'Third Way'. Yet
that turn has so far very little to bite on. For one consequence of
those twenty years has been a dearth of informed scholarship on
Labour, 'old' or 'New'. Fortunately one such body of scholarship
exists, and is reproduced here for the first time in an easily
accessible form: the writings of a group of scholars inspired by
Ralph Miliband. The 'Miliband' voice in Labour Party historiography
has been a strong and permanent one since the publication of
Parliamentary Socialism in 1961, so strong in fact that even its
most strident critics continue to cite it in their publications,
invariably distorting its arguments in the process. These writings
constitute one of the richest sources of material and analysis of
the continuing limits of Labour politics. These writers- John
Saville, Colin Leys, Leo Panitch, Hilary Wainwright- have an
immense role to fulfill debunking the wilder claims for novelty of
New Labour. They constitute an insightful source on the true
character of Old Labour; and exemplify the problems of reformism.
In this edited collection, David Coates reproduces the best of
difficult to obtain scholarship. His editorial comments act as a
guide to the moments to which that scholarship was a response. His
choice of extracts demonstrates the coherence of the approach that
links them together; and his closing essay (written with Leo
Panitch) makes clear their vital importance as a source of
understanding of the contemporary Labour Party as well as of Labour
Parties in the past.
In Economic and Industrial Performance in Europe, a distinguished
group of scholars compares the fortunes of different European
nations in the period of economic restructuring, uncertainty, and
generally slower economic growth that followed the oil crisis of
the 1970s. Using meaningful quantitative data, the authors address
the deterioration and divergence of economic performance across
Europe since 1973. They look at attempts to improve domestic
competitiveness, labour market deregulation, the impact of research
and development on economic success, comparative analysis of state
expenditure and debt, the military economy and the social
consequences of industrialism and industrial restructuring. This
volume seeks to show how the post-war boom has unravelled and how
this process has impacted upon different European economies.
Economic and Industrial Performance in Europe will be welcomed by
students, researchers and policy makers seeking comprehensive,
meaningful information on why some national economies have been
better placed than others to shoulder the burden of the more
intense, global competitive pressures that have become part of the
post-1973 world economy.
This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex
adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and
management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in
various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological,
economic and social settings, and history. Individual chapters
stress different elements of these concepts based on the specific
setting and expertise of the authors. Regions and authors have been
selected to cover a diversity of viewpoints and emphases, from
silviculture and natural forests to forest restoration, and from
boreal to tropical forests. The chapters show that there is no
single generally applicable approach to forest management that
applies to all settings. The first set of chapters provides a
global overview of how complexity, CAS and resilience theory can
benefit researchers who study forest ecosystems. A second set of
chapters provides guidance for managers in understanding how these
concepts can help them to facilitate forest ecosystem change and
renewal (adapt or self-organize) in the face of global change while
still delivering the goods and services desired by humans. The book
takes a broad approach by covering a variety of forest biomes and
the full range of management goals from timber production to forest
restoration to promote the maintenance of biodiversity, quality of
water, or carbon storage.
The literature on the character, determinants and relative
performance of the leading industrial economies has developed
rapidly of late. However many of the most important pieces of
writing are now slipping from view because they were originally
published in different, often inaccessible and highly specialised
academic journals. These three volumes bring together those key
articles and provide a new introductory commentary on the
literature. This authoritative collection provides the reader with
easy access to the full range of arguments now being developed to
explain why some forms of economic organisation prospered best in
the immediate past, and why some models now seem more effective
than others in responding to the new global conditions of
intensified international competition and rapid capital mobility.
These volumes will be an indispensable reference source for
students and researchers specialising in modern capitalism.
This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to
challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend
their thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to
develop understanding of what it means to be an able scientist; and
empowers teachers to build on their existing good practice to build
an inclusive science curriculum for able children.
Special features include: photocopiable resources that are
linked to the National Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work;
teacher guidance on the use of these resources and how they can be
incorporated into normal primary science lessons; and suggestions
for assessment.
This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge
able children to develop their potential and to extend their
thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to develop
understanding of what it means to be an able scientist; and
empowers teachers to build on their existing good practice to build
an inclusive science curriculum for able children. Special features
include: photocopiable resources that are linked to the National
Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work; teacher guidance on the use
of these resources and how they can be incorporated into normal
primary science lessons; and suggestions for assessment.
This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex
adaptive systems (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and
management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in
various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological,
economic and social settings, and histories. Individual chapters
stress different elements of these concepts based on the specific
setting and expertise of the authors. Regions and authors have been
selected to cover a diversity of viewpoints and emphases, from
silviculture and natural forests to forest restoration, and from
boreal to tropical forests.
The chapters show that there is no single generally applicable
approach to forest management that applies to all settings. The
first set of chapters provides a global overview of how complexity,
CAS and resilience theory can benefit researchers who study forest
ecosystems. A second set of chapters provides guidance for managers
in understanding how these concepts can help them to facilitate
forest ecosystem change and renewal (adapt or self-organize) in the
face of global change while still delivering the goods and services
desired by humans. The book takes a broad approach by covering a
variety of forest biomes and the full range of management goals
from timber production to forest restoration to promoting the
maintenance of biodiversity, quality of water and carbon
storage.
"The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since
1964."
"--Mike Davis"
"Compulsory reading."
"--Daniel Singer"
Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of
class as it affects workers at the beginning of the twenty-first
century. Theoretical contributions explore today's old and new
working classes, workers "north" and "south," peasants and workers,
gender and the working class, as well as migrant and knowledge
workers. Other essays examine critically important regional
experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran,
Russia, Europe and North America.
Contributions include: Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, Henry
Bernstein, Peter Kwong, Eric Mann, Ursula Huws, Andree Levesque,
Pat & Hugh Armstrong, Rosemary, Brigitte Young, Rohini Banaji,
Gerard Greenfield, Barbara Harriss-White & Nandini Gooptu,
Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller, Greg Ruiter, Huw Beynon & Jose
Ramalho, Justin Paulson, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, David
Mandel, Michael Goldfield, and Steve Jeffreys.
The global economy is dominated by a powerful set of established
and emerging capitalisms, from the long-standing capitalist
economies of the West to the rising economies of the BRIC (Brazil,
Russia, India and China) countries. An understanding of capitalism
is therefore fundamental to understanding the modern world.
Capitalism: The Basics is an accessible introduction to a variety
of capitalisms and explores key topics such as: the history of
major capitalist economies; the central role played by both states
and markets in the global economy; the impact of capitalism on
wages, workers and welfare; approaches to the analysis of
capitalism, and choices for capitalism's future. Examining
capitalism from both above and below, featuring a range of case
studies from around the globe, and including a comprehensive
glossary, this book is the ideal introduction for students studying
capitalism.
What is the future for progressive politics in advanced capitalism?
With its political fortunes so low, how might the Left move
forward? These essays from leading left intellectuals - Dean Baker,
Fred Block, David Coates, Hilary Wainwright, Colin Crouch, Wolfgang
Streeck, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin and Matthew Watson - reflect on
the scale and nature of the task that the Left now faces and
consider the following questions: * What in modern capitalism has
brought the Left to this impasse?* What role has the Left played in
its own failings?* What lessons can be learnt for progressive
politics going forward?* What are the immediate options and how can
they best be pursued? The views and opinions expressed vary, but
all offer searching insights into the task the Left now faces. All
point to the intellectual and practical experience on which the
Left now needs to draw as it deals with its contemporary
challenges. These essays represent a major statement on the future
for centre-left politics and offer a frank appraisal of the Left's
current capacity to keep conservatism at bay and to strengthen
radical politics again.
What is the future for progressive politics in advanced capitalism?
With its political fortunes so low, how might the Left move
forward? These essays from leading left intellectuals - Dean Baker,
Fred Block, David Coates, Hilary Wainwright, Colin Crouch, Wolfgang
Streeck, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin and Matthew Watson - reflect on
the scale and nature of the task that the Left now faces and
consider the following questions: * What in modern capitalism has
brought the Left to this impasse?* What role has the Left played in
its own failings?* What lessons can be learnt for progressive
politics going forward?* What are the immediate options and how can
they best be pursued? The views and opinions expressed vary, but
all offer searching insights into the task the Left now faces. All
point to the intellectual and practical experience on which the
Left now needs to draw as it deals with its contemporary
challenges. These essays represent a major statement on the future
for centre-left politics and offer a frank appraisal of the Left's
current capacity to keep conservatism at bay and to strengthen
radical politics again.
A systematic and comprehensive study of the early performance of
New Labour in power. It brings together the results of a
co-ordinated research initiative underway in the Department of
Government at the University of Manchester, charting the developing
relationship between election promise and government policy across
the whole sweep of New Labour's manifesto agenda. Each chapter
examines New Labour's initial comments, charts opening policy
moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of
state; so generating a comprehensive audit of New Labour's
electoral fidelity and an academically-informed assessment of New
Labour's likely policy trajectory though its first period of
office. -- .
The global economy is dominated by a powerful set of established
and emerging capitalisms, from the long-standing capitalist
economies of the West to the rising economies of the BRIC (Brazil,
Russia, India and China) countries. An understanding of capitalism
is therefore fundamental to understanding the modern world.
Capitalism: The Basics is an accessible introduction to a variety
of capitalisms and explores key topics such as: the history of
major capitalist economies; the central role played by both states
and markets in the global economy; the impact of capitalism on
wages, workers and welfare; approaches to the analysis of
capitalism, and choices for capitalism's future. Examining
capitalism from both above and below, featuring a range of case
studies from around the globe, and including a comprehensive
glossary, this book is the ideal introduction for students studying
capitalism.
This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British
Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was
profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to
traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an
acceptance of neo-liberalism. In blaming the Labour left, rather
than the social-democratic right for the party's years in the
electoral wilderness, the modernizers rejected the creativity and
energy which the party's New Left had mobilized, and without which
their own professed aim of democratic renewal was unlikely to be
realized. In this new edition, the authors, in collaboration with
David Coates, review the debate in light of the Blair government's
first three years in office.
Getting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most
important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to
understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico. The scale
and character of illegal immigration is only one facet of the
“immigration problem” currently before Congress and the
president, but it is its most contentious and visible face. It is
also the one part of the contemporary immigration story that
attracts the most intense opposition, the most widely disseminated
mythologies, and the most powerfully advocated solutions. What to
do about illegal immigration from Mexico is a major political
question of our time. The book’s wide-ranging and timely
discussion includes legal and non-Mexican immigration. It sets the
context of immigration before exploring the job experiences of
illegal immigrants and their quest for the American dream. The
contributors then focus on the causes and consequences—economic
and social—of immigration, both legal and otherwise, and vividly
describe the Latino experiences of illegality, including crossing
the border and living in fear of deportation. In addition, the
reform of immigration law is discussed from three distinct
viewpoints: one conservative, one liberal, and one libertarian. The
volume closes with its editors’ own proposals for comprehensive
immigration reform. With a foreword by Alejandro Portes, a
professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of
Immigrant America: A Portrait.
This title presents the conservative and liberal arguments related
to the current economic issues faced by the Obama administration,
including market regulation and green economy. At a time of tea
parties and rallies to restore sanity, the political debate in
America has become nothing more than a shouting match of various
soundbites. This book offers a refreshing change by introducing
both conservative arguments and liberal responses in a
dispassionate and clear manner. Focusing on the issues that ail the
economy under the Obama administration and their possible remedies,
the book offers substantiated facts and rational arguments on each
side, to promote true debate. Chapters on Obama's response to the
financial crisis, regulated market, green economy, need for reform
and more offer a true assessment of the problems at hand and
propose a progressive alternative to each of the key issues, from
foreclosures to entitlement reform. In addition, two appendices
provide additional, in-depth information on the roots of the crisis
and an economics primer accessible to the lay person. An engaging
read, "Making the Progressive Case" will appeal to anyone
interested in America's politics and economic future, and will help
us move beyond the partisan quagmire to bring forth political
change.
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