Order and Rebellion
Labour'S Managerial Politics from Miliband to Starmer
Published on 10. March 2026
336 pages
978-1-5261-9226-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides the first nuanced and systematic study of Labour's internal politics in the years in opposition, between 2010 and 2024, under the leaderships of Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer. Written by two authors equipped with an intimate knowledge of the party, it offers an authoritative exploration of the politics of party management in one of the most strife-ridden and turbulent periods of the party's history, the Corbyn leadership, and furnishes a timely analysis of the character, purposes and underpinnings of the Starmer managerial regime. In so doing, it shines new light on often ill-understood controversies over antisemitism, the Israel/Palestine issue, and Brexitwhile reflecting on the tension between centralisation and pluralism is a party which continues to define itself as a democratic, membership organisation. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
3 tables
File size
1,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-9226-4 (9781526192264)
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Emmanuelle Avril | Eric Shaw
Order and Rebellion
Labour'S Managerial Politics from Miliband to Starmer
Book
approx. 03/2026
Manchester University Press
€131.50
Not yet published
Emmanuelle Avril | Eric Shaw
Order and Rebellion
Labour'S Managerial Politics from Miliband to Starmer
Book
approx. 03/2026
Manchester University Press
€31.50
Not yet published
Persons
Emmanuelle Avril is Professor of British Politics and Society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
Eric Shaw is Hon. Research Fellow at the University of Stirling -- .
Eric Shaw is Hon. Research Fellow at the University of Stirling -- .
Content
1 Party management and the party's external environment
2 Labour's managerial structures, challenges and strategies
3 'No matter how hard he tried, he could not break free': Miliband, New Labour and the party's programme
4 Miliband and organisational tensions
5 High hopes: The forward march of Corbynism
6 Party Management and the entangled fracture lines of Brexit
7 Corbyn and the crisis over antisemitism
8 Corbynism: Mission impossible
9 Labour under Starmer: Taking back control
10 Starmer and candidate selection
11 The turning away: The management of policy divisions under Starmer
Conclusions and reflections -- .
2 Labour's managerial structures, challenges and strategies
3 'No matter how hard he tried, he could not break free': Miliband, New Labour and the party's programme
4 Miliband and organisational tensions
5 High hopes: The forward march of Corbynism
6 Party Management and the entangled fracture lines of Brexit
7 Corbyn and the crisis over antisemitism
8 Corbynism: Mission impossible
9 Labour under Starmer: Taking back control
10 Starmer and candidate selection
11 The turning away: The management of policy divisions under Starmer
Conclusions and reflections -- .
