The Dignity of Labour. Jon Cruddas
CONTENTS
1 Cover
6 Preface
10 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
11 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
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Part II The Ethics of Labour
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
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
The Right