Making Sense of New Labour
Author: Alan Finlayson
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart   Published: January 2003
ISBN:   PB 0 85315 956 4
Subject: Politics
  • 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.

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    List of Contents
     
    Bookmarks Contents
     
    Introduction
     
    Chapter One: Making Sense of the New Labour Symptom
     
    Introduction/ Politics, Words and Ideas/( Not so) Smart Propaganda/ Communicating Politics/ Disorganising Sense/ Conclusion Chapter Two: The Pitch: Media and Marketing
     
    Introduction/ Politics and the Media/‘ Behold, the man!’/ Behold, the future/ Conclusion Chapter Three: The Meaning of Modernisation
     
    Introduction/ The Origins of ‘ Modernisation’/ The Rhetoric of Modernisation/ The Referent of Modernisation/ Modernisation as Problematisation/ Conclusion Chapter Four: Politics: The Third Way
     
    Introduction/ Politics?/ The Third Way, Marxism Today and ‘ New Times’/ New Times, Post- Fordism and the Knowledge Economy/ Giddens and the Sociology of The Third Way/ Marketisation or Democratisation/ Conclusion Chapter Five: The Subject, Citizenship an
     
    Introduction/ Citizen- Subjects/ Welfare and the Creation of the New Subject/ Conclusion Chapter Six: Culture and the State
     
    Introduction/ The Changing Context of Government/ New Labour Economics/ The ‘ Schumpeterian Workfare Regime’/ Culture as Strategy of Governance/ Conclusion Conclusion: The Need for Politics
     
    Index