Political Studies Association - Labour Movements Group

Department of Politics, University of Bristol
Political Studies Association - Labour Movements Group
Annual Conference Programme
Clifton Hill House, Bristol
4-5 July 2002

Thursday

• Session 1 2.00-3.30: Plenary
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford), 'Political Change in England, 1918-1951: An Interpretation'
• 3.30-4.00: Tea
• Session 2a 4.00-5.15: Responses to Globalisation
  -- Bill Dunn (UWE), 'Shifting capital'
  -- Paul Kay (Manchester), 'Neoliberal Restructuring and Human Rights: An Anatomy of Industrial Conflict in Mexico'
• Session 2b 4.00-5.15: Labour's early years
  -- James Thompson (Bristol), 'Representing labour: Labour and the idea of the 'public', 1900-1914'
  -- David Young (Durham), 'Labour and the socialist incubus: writing the SDF back into Labour's history'
• 5.15-5.30: Break
• Session 3a 5.30-6.45 Labour and the 1960s
  -- Steve Fielding (Salford), 'Labour and the 1960s'
  -- Glen O'Hara (Bristol), 'The Labour Movement in Opposition and Government: Economic Policy in theory and reality 1959-70'
  -- Hugh Pemberton (Bristol) 'Labour and incomes policy'
• Session 3b 5.30-6.45 Labour in Comparative Perspective
  -- Mary Hilson (UCL), 'British Labour in Scandinavian perspective, pre 1918'
  -- Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol), 'British Labour and Swedish Social Democracy, 1945-60'
• 7.00: Dinner

Friday

• Session 4a 8.45-10.00: Labour in the interwar period
  -- John Callaghan (Wolverhampton), 'The World Crisis 1929-39 and Labour Socialism'
  -- Richard Toye (Manchester), 'Plan or perish: 1931 as a turning point in Labour's economic policy'
• Session 4b 8.45-10.00: Comparative perspectives on social democracy (I)
  -- Nick Parsons (Cardiff) 'Trade unions and social democracy in France'
  -- Ben Clift (Brunel), 'Social democracy in France'
• 10-10.15: Break
• Session 5a 10.15-11.30: Labour and the postwar world
  -- Lawrence Black (Bristol), 'Labour and the festival of Labour'
  -- Darren Lilleker (Leicester), 'The end of the Labourist consensus: 1947, Consolidation and the rise of left-wing dissent'
• Session 5b 10.15-11.30: Labour and ideology
  -- Ben Jackson (Oxford), 'Socialism and Social Justice: Egalitarianism on the British Left 1918-64'
  -- Marc Stears (Cambridge), 'Labour's ideology'
• 11.30-1145: Coffee
• Session 6a 11.45-1.00: Labour and the 1970s
  -- Kevin Jeffreys (Plymouth), 'The winter of discontent'
  -- Matt Hickson (Southampton), 'The IMF Crisis'
• Session 6b 11.45-1.00: Reformism in Europe
  -- Thorsten Dvrting, 'Formulating Social Policy: Concepts and Expertise within the Labour Party and the SPD from 1950 to 1970'
  -- Anastasis Ghikas (York), 'Social democracy in Greece between the wars'
• 1.00-2.00: Lunch
• Session 7 2.00-3.30: Plenary
  -- James Cronin (Boston), 'New Labour's pasts'
• 3.30-4.00: Tea
• Session 8a 4.00-5.30: Comparative perspectives on social democracy (II)
  -- Magnus Ryder (Brunel), 'Why Social Democrats become Neo-Liberals: The Swedish Case'
  -- Fran Tonkiss, 'British and Australian Labour'
  -- Derya Komurcu (Sussex), 'Transnational Social Democracy; the PES, Employment Policy and the EU'
• Session 8b 4.00-5.30: New Labour: policy and politics
  -- David Coates (WFU), 'New Labour's economic and industrial policy'
  -- Fiona Ross (Bristol), 'Labour and the NHS'
  -- Eric Shaw (Stirling), 'Labour and the market'

Further details from m.wickham@bristol.ac.uk or lawrence.black@bristol.ac.uk.