Biue Labour Forging a New Politics Edited by lan Geary and Adrian Pabst Foreword by Rowan Williams I.B. TAURIS Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgements xiii Contributors xv Introduction: Blue Labour and the Politics of the Common Good 1 Adrian Pabst PART ONE: NARRATIVE AND PROGRAMME 1. The Good Society, Catholic Social Thought and the Politics of the Common Good 13 Maurice Glasman 2. The Blue Labour Dream 27 John Milbank 3. A Blue Labour Vision of the Common Good 51 Frank Field PART TWO: LABOUR - PARTY AND POLITICS 4. Blue Labour: A Politics Centred on Relationships 63 David Lammy 5. Community Organising and Blue Labour 71 Arnie Graf 6. Blue Labour and the Trade Unions: Pro-Business and Pro-Worker 79 Tom Watson viii Blue Labour PART THREE: POLITICAL ECONOMY 7. The Common Good in an Age of Austerity 87 Jon Cruddas 8. 'Civil Economy: Blue Labour s Alternative to Capitalism 97 Adrian Pabst 9. Globalisation, Nation States and the Economics of Migration 121 David Goodhart PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY - ON NATURE, PROGRESS AND WORK 10. Nature, Science and the Politics of the Common Good 143 Ruth Davis 11. The Problem with Progress 155 Dave Landrum 12. Meaningful Work: A Philosophy of Work and a Politics of Meaningfulness 179 Ruth Yeoman PART FIVE: LABOUR'S RADICAL 'CONSERVATISM' 13. Labour's 'Conservative' Tradition 195 Rowenna Davis 14. The Gentie Society: What Blue Labour Can Offer Conservatives 203 Ed West PART SIX: EAITH AND FAMILY 15. Vision, Virtue and Vocation: Notes on Blue Labour as a Practice of Politics 217 Luke Breiherton 16. The Labour Family 235 Michael Merrick Conclusion: Blue Labour - Principles, Policy Ideas and Prospects 253 Adrian Pabst Index of Key Names 265 Index of Key Subjeets 267 .