Losing LabourÆs Soul?: New Labour and the

Based on extensive original research and interviews with a wide variety of key players, this is a compelling assessment of the Labour Party in power. Beginning with a detailed account of the development of New Labour, including the ideological tensions within the party, Eric Shaw provides a sophisticated analysis of the Labour Government during an unprecedented period of power. Offering the most detailed examination yet published of the actual performance of the party in several key social and economic policy areas, Portrait of New Labour will be of enormous interests to students of British politics, labour history and party politics.

Eric Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling, UK.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The British social democratic tradition	p. 17
New Labour and social justice	p. 43
Equality of opportunity: the case of secondary education	p. 60
Is what matters what works? The case of the Private Finance Initiative	p. 80
Modernisation in action: the case of NHS reform	p. 95
New Labour's representational role: the case of employment relations	p. 120
The dynamics of New Labour	p. 142
For what does New Labour stand?	p. 166
For whom does New Labour stand?	p. 189
Conclusion: losing Labour's soul?	p. 199
Notes	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 214
Index	p. 242
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Losing LabourÆs Soul?: New Labour and the Blair Government 1997-2007

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