The Scottish Labour Party: History, Institutions and Ideas

1. The People's Party, Still? The Sociology of Scotland's Leading Party; Gerry Hassan; SECTION I; UNDERSTANDING SCOTTISH LABOUR: HISTORIES AND ENVIRONMENT; 2. The Labour Party in Scotland 1886-1945: Pragmatism and Principle; Richard Finlay; 3. Labour in Scotland since 1945: Myth and Reality; Bob McLean; 4. The Economic and Social Context of Scottish Labour; Christopher Harvie; SECTION II; SCOTLAND'S LEADING PARTY; 5. The Scottish Electorate and Labour; Paula Surridge; 6. The Politics of Scottish Labour's Heartlands; Jane Saren and James McCormick; 7. Women and the Labour Party in Scotland; Fiona Mackay; SECTION III; SCOTTISH LABOUR, STATE, NATION AND AUTONOMY; 8. New Labour, New Parliament; Douglas Fraser; 9. Scottish Labour and British Politics; Iain McLean; 10. Pragmatic Nationalists? The Scottish Labour Party and Nationalism; Nicola McEwen; 11. The Autonomy and Organisation of Scottish Labour; Peter Lynch and Steven Birrell; SECTION IV; THE WIDER MOVEMENT, SCOTLAND AND INTERNATIONALLY; 12. Labour's Journey from Socialism to Social Democracy: A Case Study of Gordon Brown's Political Thought; Gerry Hassan; 13. Scotland, Labour and the Trade Union Movement: Partners in Change or Uneasy Bedfellows?; Mark Irvine; 14. Socialism, Territory and the National Question; Michael Keating.

Dr. Gerry Hassan is Research Fellow in contemporary history at Dundee University. He has written and edited over two dozen books on Scottish and British politics including The Strange Death of Labour Scotland (with Eric Shaw, 2012), Caledonian Dreaming (2014), Independence of the Scottish Mind (2014), Scotland the Bold (2016), and SNP Leaders (edited with James Mitchell, 2016). His latest book is The People's Flag and the Union Jack: An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party (with Eric Shaw, 2019).

researched and presented! a lively and informative book that I found hard to put down. researched and presented! a lively and informative book that I found hard to put down.