Presenter Information

Eileen Yeo, University of Sussex

Start Date

2-10-1999 10:15 AM

End Date

2-10-1999 10:30 AM

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You would think New Labour had invented the word 'Community', so often do the B1airites use it. A new' Active Community Unit' is being established in Whitehall, to spearhead Blair's challenge 'for Britain to mark the millennium with an explosion of giving of acts of community that would touch people's lives'l. Key Labour politicians have attended seminars on communitarianism, a rather authoritarian moralistic voluntarism, developed by sociologist Amitrai Etzioni in the USA.

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Labour and Community, Past and Future: or why Merrie (White, Male) England and Mateship are not enough

You would think New Labour had invented the word 'Community', so often do the B1airites use it. A new' Active Community Unit' is being established in Whitehall, to spearhead Blair's challenge 'for Britain to mark the millennium with an explosion of giving of acts of community that would touch people's lives'l. Key Labour politicians have attended seminars on communitarianism, a rather authoritarian moralistic voluntarism, developed by sociologist Amitrai Etzioni in the USA.