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Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions : Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform - John Kelly

Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions

Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform

By: John Kelly

Hardcover | 29 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political activist. Originally trained in German revolutionary ethical socialism in the early 1930s, he was the founder and joint editor of Socialist Commentary, the leading outlet for a revisionista (TM) social democratic thinking in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the leading figure in the influential 1950s a think tanka (TM) Socialist Union and played a key part in the bitter factional struggles inside the Labour Party. The main argument of the book is that Flandersa (TM) ethical socialist ideas constituted both his strength and his weakness. Their rigor, clarity and sweep enabled him to exert a major influence over government attempts to negotiate labor reforms with the trade unions. Yet he proved unable to explain the failure of the reforms amidst rising levels of industrial conflict, as his intellectual rigor turned into ideological rigidity. The failure of negotiated reform led to Margaret Thatchera (TM)s neo-liberal assault on trade union power in the 1980s.

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"Kelly's book on Flanders and ethical socialism is a valuable addition to the literature of industrial relations. It offers a detailed account of the political philosophy and policy activism of one of the founders of British industrial relations and in this way considerably illuminates an important historical chapter in the history of our field." -- Bruce E. Kaufman, Georgia State University, USA

"The book is the product of an intensive process of research, involving a comprehensive reading of Flanders' published and unpublished writings, extensive archival work, and interviews and correspondence with many of his key associates..." -- Richard Hyman, London School of Economics (English Book Reviews for RI/IR, Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations)

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