Anthony Crosland: intellectual and politician

Kogan, Maurice

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“…25 In similar vein, Maurice Kogan indicated that the discussion about Crosland was a valid and illuminating exercise. 26 Others have been much less reconciled, apparently, to conjectures. Thus Dick Leonard, a former Labour MP and once Crosland's parliamentary private secretary, declared,`It is always a hazardous business to guess how a dead person would react to issues which arise may years later and in greatly changed circumstances.'…”

Section: New Labour and Crosland's Legacymentioning

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The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal

Wickham‐Jones

2007

Political Quarterly

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Recently, much controversy has been generated about what Tony Crosland would have made of New Labour. Critics and supporters of the Blair project alike have laid claim to Crosland's legacy. For some it is evidence of New Labour's integrity; for others it confirms the party's betrayal of social democratic values. An examination of the arguments in The Future of Socialism indicates that it is neither. In this article, I offer a new appraisal of that text that challenges the orthodox analysis of it. Most accounts present the volume as a theoretical and original statement, one seeking to align British socialism with Swedish social democracy. I argue that the volume does not offer this kind of original contribution to debates about socialism. It is neither primarily a theoretical volume nor one that breaks decisively with the insularity that has shaped the trajectory of British socialism. I maintain that the importance of Crosland's legacy is emotional and symbolic: it offers Labour a charismatic and reassuring image of the party's past.

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Section: New Labour and Crosland's Legacymentioning

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The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal

Wickham‐Jones

2007

Political Quarterly

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“…And Northern Ireland' . 50 Second, to ensure no fall in standards from the move to comprehensive schools. 51 Third, to ensure that removing grammar schools did not 'increase the disparity of esteem within the system as a whole' by 'leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position' (emphasis in original).…”

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The Attlee settlement’s failures: stagflation, slums in the sky and educational geography

Bevan

2023

How Did Britain Come to This? A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance

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The gap between the incomes of the richest and those of the poorest in Britain reached its narrowest point in 1979 … But the unfortunate effect of narrowing inequality in the 1970s was to make everyone feel as though they' d never had it so bad. British people saw no reason to celebrate their egalitarianism, when the apparent cost over the course of the decade had been endless industrial action, government spending cuts, high inflation, rising unemployment, scary punk rockers and National Front Rallies. In some small way a socialist society had been achieved in Britain; it's just that people seemed to find it a dreadful place in which to live. Lynsey Hanley (2017) 1The Attlee government's eclectic mix of pragmatic policies built on proposals for the wartime coalition government by individuals from across the political spectrum. It was designed to tackle the problems of the 1930s -Beveridge's five giant evils. After Labour's 1951 defeat, the succession of Conservative governments to 1964 and from 1970 to 1974 governed within the Attlee settlement. They aimed to maintain the 'welfare state' but favoured limits on public spending and shifting the balance of the economy more to the private sector. This chapter looks at where the post-war settlement ran into three problems for which the neoliberalism of the later Thatcher settlement seemed to promise solutions. First, the linchpin of the Attlee settlement was that the state could steer the economy to deliver a high and stable level of employment. In the mid-1970s that linchpin fractured. Second, significant problems emerged with some post-war public housing. And, third, weaknesses in the post-war systems of public education and its attempted reform also became apparent.

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“…However, it was his tenure as Secretary of State for Education and Science between January 1965 and August 1967 that had the greatest impact, both on the direction of the Wilson government and on the education sector as a whole in England andWales. Between 1965 and1967 it was no exaggeration to state that Crosland had rewritten the secondary education settlement, tearing up the tripartite system that had followed from the Butler Act and installing in its place a system of comprehensive education (Dean, 1998;Kogan et al, 1971;Kogan, 2006). In addition, he had introduced the 'binary' system of higher education, through the designation of the polytechnics as alternative providers of degree-level education to the universities (Kogan, 1971: 52).…”

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The politics of education revisited: Anthony Crosland and Michael Gove in historical perspective

Finn¹

2015

London Review of Education

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This article traces continuity and change in the governance of British education through the comparison of two ministers, Anthony Crosland and Michael Gove. Taking Maurice Kogan's seminal The Politics of Education as the point of departure, the article highlights the role of political ideology in large-scale educational change, taking school reorganization as a case study. The article argues that the recent tenure of Michael Gove indicates that large-scale change within the British education system still requires a (more or less) coherent ideological framework and considerable commitment on the part of the individual minister.

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Anthony Crosland: intellectual and politician

Cited by 3 publications

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The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal

The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal

The Attlee settlement’s failures: stagflation, slums in the sky and educational geography

The politics of education revisited: Anthony Crosland and Michael Gove in historical perspective

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