TY - BOOK ID - 77894412 TI - Equality and the British Left : a study in progressive political thought, 1900-64 PY - 2007 SN - 1781701458 1847792197 9781847792198 9781781701454 PB - Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Equality KW - Socialism KW - Liberalism KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - Left (Political science) KW - Left and right (Political science) KW - Right (Political science) KW - Political science KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Sociology KW - Democracy KW - Liberty KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Economic policy KW - Social policy. KW - British Left. KW - L. T. Hobhouse. KW - New Left. KW - early twentieth century. KW - economic egalitarianism. KW - egalitarian society. KW - equality. KW - progressive liberalism. KW - revisionist social democracy. KW - socialism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894412 AB - The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to 'equality'? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democ. ER -