British Politics in the Global Age Can Social Democracy Survive [Paperback]

Joel Krieger provides an in-depth study of New Labour's model of government and the political challenges it faces. He analyzes the interaction of global processes and domestic politics from the organization of production to the formation of class, ethnic, and gender-based identities. Krieger develops an original framework for analyzing New Labour in comparison to three models of social democracy and places the British case firmly in the context of alternative national models and European debates.

Preface
Part I. Situating the New Labour
1. Social Democracy: The British Case in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective
2. New Labour: Regime Characteristics, Strategic Options, Dilemmas
Part II. The Organization of Production
3. Social Democracy, Class, and National Policy Sovereignty
4. Globalization, Post-Fordism, and the British Model
Part III. The Unmaking of the British Working Class
5. Women, Work, and Social Policy
6. Ethnic Minority Groups: Employment and Settlement Patterns
Part IV. Modular Politics
7. Modularity, Identities, and Cultural Repertoires
8. National Identities
9. Communities: Actual and Imagined
Conclusion
10. Challenges to Contemporary British Government

This book is an important and enriching contribution to the analysis of British politics. It eschews the language of 'no alternative' to argue that in a global age New Labor can and should seek to craft a distinct form of social democratic politics equipped for a multinational and multiethnic Britain. It deserves to be widely read. --American Political Science Review

This is an ambitious and original study of the politics of New Labour, which analyzes how social democratic politics have been transformed by changes taking place in the organization of production and the composition of the working class, and by the rise of new identities. It offers a frls#