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Jon Cruddas. The Dignity of Labour
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Pages
Dedication
The Dignity of Labour
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Prologue
Notes
1 Work and the Modern World. Politics and Belonging
Degradation
Authoritarian Populism
The Challenge
The End of Work?
Pragmatic Confusion
Then Worked Stopped
The Way Ahead
Notes
Part I: The Economics of Labour
2 The Labour Problem. Dagenham and the 17
Post-war Pluralism
Classical Economics and the Labour Problem
Disease
The Cure
The Corporate State
Rethinking Made in Dagenham
1969
Notes
3 Miracle Cures. Stepping Stones
Neo-Classical Theory
Shock Doctrine
Unity
Unity in Dagenham
Miracle Cure?
Notes
4 New Labour. Neo-Classical Labour?
Donovan’s Early Influence
Treasury Utility
Rights, Equality and Europe
Blair
Knowledge Work
Closing-Down Sale – Everything Must Go
Blair and Brown United
Ignored Not Wiped Out
The ‘Labour Problem’
Notes
5 A Return to Marx
Modern Utopia
Value Theory
Work and Marxism
Reading Marx
Notes
Part II: The Ethics of Labour
Notes
6 Dignity. Dagenham Labour
The Public Philosopher Comes to Town
What Is Work?
Early Dagenham Capitalism
Dignity
Talking Heads
Notes
7 What Do We Think and What’s Going to Happen?
‘Technology Is not Destiny’
Notes
8 Justice and the Left. Three Speeches
Politics, Morality and Justice
Welfare
Freedom
Virtue
Rethinking Socialism
A Different Marxism
A Different Labour
Rethinking the Oxford School
Footnote: Tony Blair – The Road Not Taken
Notes
9 Human Labour and Radical Hope. A Culture Dies
Radical Hope
The Political Interregnum
Utility
Technology
Cosmos
Rights
The Right
Universal Basic Income. Why?
Technical Concerns
The Real Case against UBI – The Dignity of Work
The New Work Covenant
The Promotion of Good Work
The Renewal of Vocation
A Voice for Labour
Personal Dignity and Integrity
The New Worker
The New Deal
Work at the Centre of Government
A New National Work Assessment
Notes
Epilogue
Notes
Index. A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
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P
Q
R
S
T
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‘In this short book Jon Cruddas upends the assumptions of the modern left and offers a route back to relevance. Anchored in the moving story of loss, humiliation and resilience in Dagenham, he revives an exiled political tradition to restore the prospect of dignity and hope. In a time when we’ve briefly remembered the value of work, Cruddas reminds us there is nothing inevitable about the future. Surely among the most important political works of the coming decade, The Dignity of Labour offers the first, genuinely original answer to the question we are frequently asked: what is Labour for?’
Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary
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Conservatism capitulated to the economic liberals. Fundamental beliefs, such as order, freedom and the preservation of our national institutions, were compromised as a fringe thought experiment took over and derailed a once great political party. This has inhibited its ability to widen opportunity through a property-owning democracy and forge inclusive growth protected by sound money. In response, and having secured Brexit, Boris Johnson and his top team now seek a ‘blue-collar’ conservatism and spending plan to appeal to its new ‘Red Wall’ constituencies. Their future success post-pandemic will depend on how far the party and wider conservative intellectual movement remain attached to the economic arguments of the liberal purists.
Social democracy remains a stale project barely recognizable when compared to the post-war movement to civilize capitalism. Thatcher’s legacy hung over the ‘Third Way’ project to manage the proceeds of growth; it won three elections but was swept out of office without growth to manage. Corbyn broke with the ‘Third Way’ and delivered a 10-point jump in support at the 2017 election. ‘Corbynism’ had energy because it stood outside the neo-liberal appropriation of UK politics; yet much of the party did not. The party was battered in 2019 and under new leadership remains a brittle, nervous coalition.
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