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dc.contributor.authorToye, Richarden_GB
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-22T13:56:18Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T14:13:29Z
dc.date.issued2004-06-21en_GB
dc.description.abstractThis chapter draws on a range of Douglas Jay's speeches and writings in order to test the powerful argument that during these years Labour failed to come to terms with working-class affluence. According to Lawrence Black, the consumerist values of the 'affluent society' were seen as overwhelmingly negative by socialists, whom, he argues, 'can be seen to have to a large extent brought upon themselves their alienation from popular affluence'. Jay's explicit attempts to evolve a socialist response to the phenomenon of affluence marked him out as a key figure in Labour revisionism, albeit one whose contributions during the 'thirteen years of Tory misrule' have largely been forgotten. Before he began to write Socialism in the New Society book, and even before the 1959 election defeat, Jay attempted to devise new policies appropriate for the post-Attlee era. Doubts about 'The Stagnant Society', by contrast, only caught the popular mood in Britain after the 1959 election.
dc.identifier.citationIn: Black, Lawrence and Pemberton, Hugh (eds.). An Affluent Society?: Britain’s Post-War 'Golden Age' Revisited, pp. 53-67en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315262819-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/3621en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAshgateen_GB
dc.subjectLabour Partyen_GB
dc.subjectEconomic Policyen_GB
dc.subjectDouglas Jayen_GB
dc.titleThe Forgotten Revisionist: Douglas Jay and Britain’s Transition to Affluence, 1951-1964en_GB
dc.typeBook chapteren_GB
dc.date.available2012-06-22T13:56:18Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T14:13:29Z
dc.identifier.isbn9780754635284en_GB
dc.description© 2004 Ashgate Publishing. An Affluent Society?: Britain's Post-War 'Golden Age' Revisited, edited by Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton, 2004, Ashgate. Details of the definitive version are available at http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754635284en_GB


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