After New Labour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 1-10

3. When Sociology Met Politics: New Labour and the Third Way

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Third Way Sociology

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 13-33

   3. Third Way values?

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 34-49

   4. Analysing Social Change and Political Strategy

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 50-61

4. The Left Critics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Neo-Marxists : Capitalism with an (In)human Face

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 65-78

   3. Anti-Technocrats: The Tyranny of Targets

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 79-92

   4. Social Democrats: The Real Third Way?

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 93-115

5. After New Labour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Developing the Critics

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 119-138

   3. Reconstructing the Third Way

      • Will Leggett

      Pages 139-164

6. Back Matter

   Pages 165-196

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What's Left after New Labour? This timely book assesses the legacy of both the Third Way and its critics. Analysing the relationship between social theory and political strategy, it outlines the basis of a post-New Labour project. This reconnects with the concerns of the Left, while preserving what was important in the Third Way. Collapsing the boundaries between sociology and political science, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in centre-left renewal.

• capitalism
• Marxism
• political science
• politics
• social theory
• sociology

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Will Leggett

WILL LEGGETT is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he researches and teaches in Political Sociology and Social Theory. He is co-editor of The Third Way and Beyond: Criticisms, Futures, Alternatives (2004).

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