Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on March 2, 2007
Parliamentary Affairs 2007 60(2):356-362; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm001
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The Labour Governments, 19641970
P. Dorey (ed), The Labour Governments, 19641970, Routledge, 2006, 401 pp., hbk, ISBN 0-714-65619-4.
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The 19 chapters of this book cover the policy areas of industrial relations, incomes, the EEC, foreign affairs, Whitehall reform, parliamentary reform, devolution, English regional policy, Northern Ireland, education, pensions, immigration, the legal status of homosexuality and abolition of the death penalty. Also there are chapters on Labour in Opposition 19511964, the social background of Labour MPs, the problem of party management and the Fabian political economy of Harold Wilson. Part of the rationale for the book is to plug gaps left by the existing literature on this period of Labour administration and to do so with the benefit of Cabinet papers and other official documents not previously available. Oddly, only three items in the existing literature receive a mention in this introductory context (two by Ponting, the other by the CoopeyFieldingTiratsoo team). This is to overlook the three volumes published by Manchester University Press (MUP) in 2003 and 2004,