Contents -- Series editors' foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction (John Callaghan, Steven Fielding and Steve Ludlam) -- 1 Understanding Labour's ideological trajectory (Nick Randall) -- 2 'What kind of people are you?' Labour, the people and the 'new political history' (Lawrence Black) -- 3 'Labourism' and the New Left (Madeleine Davis) -- 4 Ralph Miliband and the Labour Party: from Parliamentary Socialism to 'Bennism' (Michael Newman) -- 5 The continuing relevance of the Milibandian perspective (David Coates and Leo Panitch) -- 6 An exceptional comrade? The Nairn-Anderson interpretation (Mark Wickham-Jones) -- 7 Class and politics in the work of Henry Pelling (Alastair J. Reid) -- 8 Ross McKibbin: class cultures, the trade unions and the Labour Party (John Callaghan) -- 9 The Progressive Dilemma and the social democratic perspective (Steven Fielding and Declan McHugh) -- 10 Too much pluralism, not enough socialism: interpreting the unions-party link (Steve Ludlam) -- 11 Lewis Minkin and the party-unions link (Eric Shaw) -- 12 How to study the Labour Party: contextual, analytical and theoretical issues (Colin Hay) -- Guide to further reading -- Index.