| Contents |
Introduction : after Blair, after socialism and the search for a new story / Gerry Hassan -- New Labour and old debates / Andrew Gamble -- Making Labour safe : globalization and the aftermath of the social democratic retreat / Alan Finlayson -- New Labour and the problem of democracy / Colin Crouch -- Britain after Blair, or Thatcherism consolidated / Zygmunt Bauman -- Labour, Britishness and concepts of "nation" and "state" / Gerry Hassan -- Learning to let go : the potential of a self-creating society / Tom Bentley -- Re-imagining the public realm / Sue Goss -- Living in the machine : New Labour and public services / Jake Chapman -- Hard Labour? : the future of work and the role of public policy / David Coats -- The real egalitarianism? : social justice after Blair / Ruth Lister -- Economics and neo-liberalism / Edward Fullbrook -- What's wrong with the official future? / Richard Eckersley -- The next progressive political wave / Neal Lawson and Hetan Shah -- The next left : a transatlantic conversation / Jonathan Freedland and MIchael Walzer. |
