Labour's Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown

by Kevin Hickson

"Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Labour Party is a party of values but often not of ideas. The number of people involved in the serious discussion of ideas in the Labour Party is relatively small and intellectuals are often viewed with suspicion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845112083
• ISBN13: 9781845112080
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.5"